The company had also discovered 9,500 unique URLs hosting malware on Discord’s CDN. In 2021 security company Check Point detected a 140% year-on-year increase in the amount of malware on Discord servers. Discord currently has 150 million active users compared to 100 million in 2020, while Telegram claims to gave 700 million active users, up from 400 million two years ago.Īttacks are ticking up too. “They often have APIs that allow anyone to implement malware, as they do not require any authorisation to write code to run on the platforms.” Discord and Telegram malware attacks are commonĪs the popularity of these messaging platforms increases, they become a more attractive target for hackers. “Many messaging platforms were not built for organisational use, and were instead created for general usage,” Hauk says. The design of these apps makes them easy for criminals to access says Chris Hauk, consumer privacy advocate at Pixel Privacy. The links are open to any users without authentication.” “Malware operators seemingly do not face any restrictions when uploading their malicious payloads to the Discord CDN for file hosting. “Many threat actors currently use Discord’s content delivery network (CDN) to host malware payloads,” the report says. The cloud infrastructure used by these apps is also being targeted.
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