Cisco Talos: Reliance on Slack and Discord has opened up new ways for fraudsters and cybercriminals to bypass security tools and deliver malware. Cybercriminals are using these collaboration tools not only to deliver malware but also to retrieve information about specific components and networks, the report says. The tools are considered trusted parts of the network that employees use for essential communication, the researchers say. The researchers also found that fraudsters are abusing legitimate APIs used in these collaboration platforms as a way to establish a command-and-control infrastructure that can be used to steal data.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/fraudsters-flooding-collaboration-tools-malware-a-16374