Hackers Increasingly Using Discord to Spread Malware

Researchers found that hackers are turning to Discord to spread malware, such as password-hijacking and Discord chat bot APIs.
But the greatest percentage of the malware we found have a focus on credential and personal information theft, a wide variety of stealer malware as well as more versatile RATs. The threat actors behind these operations employed social engineering to spread credential-stealing malware, then use the victims’ harvested Discord credentials to target additional Discord users.
Tags: Hackers, Malware, Security, Security Friday