{"id":174426,"date":"2023-10-20T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/discord-a-playground-for-nation-state-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure"},"modified":"2023-10-20T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:27:06","slug":"discord-a-playground-for-nation-state-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/discord-a-playground-for-nation-state-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure","title":{"rendered":"Discord: A Playground for Nation-State Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discord-a-playground-for-nation-state-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd75\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Nation-state hackers are turning to Discord. Discover how they\u2019re using this social platform for potential cyber-espionage and target critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In what\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Discord, in recent years, has become a lucrative target, acting as a fertile ground for <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2021\/04\/alert-theres-new-malware-out-there.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosting malware<\/a> using its content delivery network (CDN) as well as allowing information stealers to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2023\/06\/new-golang-based-skuld-malware-stealing.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">siphon sensitive data<\/a> off the app and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2023\/10\/over-3-dozen-data-stealing-malicious.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facilitating data exfiltration<\/a> by means of webhooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe usage of Discord is largely limited to information stealers and grabbers that anyone can buy or download from the Internet,\u201d Trellix researchers Ernesto Fern\u00e1ndez Provecho and David Pastor Sanz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trellix.com\/en-us\/about\/newsroom\/stories\/research\/discord-i-want-to-play-a-game.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a Monday report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd75\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Nation-state hackers are turning to Discord. Discover how they\u2019re using this social platform for potential cyber-espionage and target critical infrastructure. Read: In what\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,385,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-evolution","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}