Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa

Multiple high-impact cyber developments: researchers uncovered a hack-for-hire spyware campaign targeting journalists in the Middle East and North Africa (including Bitter and ProSpy artifacts); U.S. authorities disrupted a Russia-linked espionage operation (Forest Blizzard/GRU) that hijacked router traffic and stole Microsoft credentials across ~18,000 devices; Iranian state-aligned actors launched disruptive attacks against U.S. energy and water industrial control systems; GrafanaGhost researchers demonstrated prompt-injection data-exfiltration against Grafana’s AI features; Fortinet FortiOS