How cybercrims embrace messaging apps to spread malware, communicate

Cybercriminals are turning to messaging apps like Telegram and Discord as alternatives to popular underground forums: not only for the private communications and security features but also as avenues for spreading malware. Researchers at infosec vendor Intel 471 have been tracking the movement of more than a dozen threat …

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot to add the disclaimer “This FUD was brought to you by FAANG and their subsidiary the Department of Justice.”

[Anonymous Coward]

Where are the other three horsemen

Good they’ve called out one of the horsemen of the tech Apocalypse, just missing the other three – competitors to Big Pharma, terrorists and kiddie fiddlers.

Please include to ensure maximum impact and horror.

[Anonymous Coward]

E2EE

Yesterday they came for the Child Pornographers

But I was not a Child Pornographer

Today they come for the Cybercriminals

But I am not a Cybercriminal

Tomorrow they will come for the Human Rights Activists

But I am not a Human Rights Activist

Then they will come for the Trade Unionists

But I am not a Trade Unionist

Then they will come for people whose views do not align with the Party of Government

And then they’ll catch me.

[Graham Cobb]

Breathless

Cybercriminals are turning to messaging apps like Telegram and Discord as alternatives to popular underground forums: not only for the private communications and security features but also as avenues for spreading malware.

In other news... Gangs of thieves are turning to vehicles like family saloons and people carriers as alternatives to the traditional Transit van: not only for the leather seats and tinted windows but also because they are stopped less by police looking for stolen goods.

So crims use the available technologies, just like we all do. "Crims use Tech X" does not imply "Tech X is mostly used by crims"!

There is some useful info buried in the article but demonising important tech is not helpful.