[neurostimulant]

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.

[remram]

Couldn't you use someone else's IRC server, the same way you use Discord's server?

[neurostimulant]

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.

[girvo]

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.

[manholio]

You are, yes and yes.