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)
Same 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.
A 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.
Yeah "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.
True... Though I've seen projects selling Discord hacking as a SaaS. And I never understood who was paying for that service and why. I also don't know enough IRC to know if hacking it was monetizable in that way
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)