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Oct 20, 2023

Discord: A Playground for Nation-State Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure

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🕵️‍♂️ Nation-state hackers are turning to Discord. Discover how they’re using this social platform for potential cyber-espionage and target critical infrastructure.

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In what’s the latest evolution of threat actors abusing legitimate infrastructure for nefarious ends, new findings show that nation-state hacking groups have entered the fray in leveraging the social platform for targeting critical infrastructure.

Discord, in recent years, has become a lucrative target, acting as a fertile ground for hosting malware using its content delivery network (CDN) as well as allowing information stealers to siphon sensitive data off the app and facilitating data exfiltration by means of webhooks.

“The usage of Discord is largely limited to information stealers and grabbers that anyone can buy or download from the Internet,” Trellix researchers Ernesto Fernández Provecho and David Pastor Sanz said in a Monday report.

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