Security News > 2023 > October > Discord: A Playground for Nation-State Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure
2023-10-17 14:48
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
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