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Why do people go after Discord accounts so hard? They're not commonly used for OAuth into third party sites, they don't house money, and Discord makes it hard t
by cobertos 3y ago
Why do people go after Discord accounts so hard? They're not commonly used for OAuth into third party sites, they don't house money, and Discord makes it hard to get all the data out of an account anyway (GDPR request only returns your half of conversation, etc...). I don't understand.
Additionally, It's the only platform I've been hacked on. Someone compromised a friend's account and said they had made a game they wanted me to try (I'm an indie game dev so it seemed legit)
- capableweb 3y agoMost of those projects listed aren't exclusively Discord "stealers", but seems to grab a bunch of things like cookies, tokens and more.
- Stagnant 3y agoYeah "discord stealer" basically means that it is a stealer that uses discord webhooks to deliver data from the victims. "stealer" is a type of malware that typically grabs cookies and saved login data from installed browsers along with extension data such as crypto wallets.
- adzm 3y agoIt also makes it easy to spread through messages or invites etc
- armada651 3y agoSame reason mail servers are a massive target, it's for sending out spam. People are more likely to click suspicious links if they're coming from a friend.
- cobertos 3y agoAh I forgot about Discord spam! I did used to get _a lot_ of that. Particularly surrounding crypto prpjects
- askiiart 3y agoYeah, I've gotten my fair share of that. Though now it's more common for me to get fans.ly links and the like.
- cobertos 3y agoI'm glad Ive avoided that somehow, it stopped after the crypto spam stopped a year ago. Mostly after leaving a couple bigger servers.
- pndy 3y agoHaven't got a single spam in all these years I'm using it - guess it all depends on the servers you're on
- Scaevolus 3y agoBecause hackers are mostly teens, teens are mostly on discord, and Discord accounts can have juicy private information.
- WXLCKNO 3y agoMassive raise during the NFT boom to spam people with fake minting sites and also scam them out of their crypto in other ways.
- spencerchubb 3y agosuper common for crypto projects to use discord as their main community and communication
- yieldcrv 3y agoall of your assumptions are wrong due to many crypto communities moving or spawning there and it is quite lucrative only have to be right once and there is a huge and gullible audience there
- JCharante 3y agoA lot of discord users are script kiddies or non technical users for whom Teamspeak 3, Ventrilo, Mumble, IRC, or Jabber were “too hard” to setup making them easy targets. I’ve been a discord user since July 2015 and it was nice until people began to use it as an everything app and the hordes of children joined. I really really despise the discord userbase because they’re the new generation of the eternal September that ruins the internet.
- op00to 3y agoThe same reason 30 years ago we would force netsplits on IRC and hijack ops in channels.