VERY IMPORTANT

With 50% more users last year than in 2020, the number of people using the community chat platform Discord is growing at a blistering pace. This has led cybercriminals to refine and expand malicious attack use cases for the platform. In this threat research report, Morphisec reveals how threat actors are using Discord as part of an increasingly popular attack chain with a new SYK crypter designed to outwit signature and behavior-based security controls.