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by avian 1321 days ago
> discord webhook

Hah. Is this true? I find it funny since IRC has/had this reputation for being a means of communication with malware and it's often blocked on this grounds.

Nice to know that malware is going on with the times and is using Discord for that now.

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Discord is great as command and control server because the malware author doesn't need to expose their ip address or implement a complex web of proxy to secure their C&C server.
Couldn't you use someone else's IRC server, the same way you use Discord's server?
I suppose you could, but have you seen how popular new opensource projets being run these days? Young devs really loves discord to the point of hosting documentations there. I imagine young malware authors are no different.
Which, I don’t know if I’m getting old, but man that frustrates me. It’s a terrible platform for documentation. It’s barely a good text chat platform.
You are, yes and yes.