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Hackers abused a free VoIP service for gamers to distribute remote-access Trojans and other malware. Miscreants took to Discord and distributed malicious programs including NanoCore, njRAT, SpyRAT to gamers using the chat servers, but that was just one aspect of a wider pattern of abuse. Symantec discovered some groups were …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    Eh?

    Distributing malware in chat over VoIP??

    WTF?

    Is it VoIP or chat? The clue is in the V.

    You may as well be saying distributing parcel bombs over PSTN.

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    1. Robert Carnegie Silver badge
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      Re: Eh?

      "Chat with attachments" I think. Maybe audio formatted like with 1980s home computers where software came on audio cassette tape. If you hear a modem / fax machine sound then HANG UP.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Eh?

      You can just cite malicious code and it executes, right? /s

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    3. GiantKiwi
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      Re: Eh?

      Discord is basically Slack for gamers.

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  2. Known Hero

    staying away from discord ....

    But the trendy ad's still seem to be sucking people in :/ there is one claim that they "cant be taken down as they are p2p" it was highly amusing to see a few weeks ago that they were taken down :D

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    So...

    The screeching I hear when playing CS:GO on a public server isnt 12 year olds being twats its actually a modulated analogue malware signal.

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  4. ecofeco Silver badge

    O reely?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/20/millennials_easier_bait_for_tech_support_scams_than_baby_boomers/

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