Phishing using Discord webhooks will be harder.

“Attackers, Trellix wrote, use the platform’s webhooks to pull data from victims’ computers and drop it into Discord channels run by the attackers.”

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    342·
    1 year ago

    This is… annoying. I get the intent for malware, but honestly it’s a BS reason. The content will just be uploaded elsewhere. But what this will do is drastically lower their storage cost under the guise of… not even user safety, more “slightly inconveniencing malware writers.”

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it’ll be uploaded elsewhere. That’s the whole point.

      Discord doesn’t want to host any of this data, they don’t want to be connected to criminal activity. It makes sense.

      Also, while it might slightly lower their storage costs (if the hackers move elsewhere), if you send a file to someone, it’ll still stay on Discord’s servers. Only difference is the link to said file - it’ll only be valid for a day, and then you’ll have to use a new one (in a way that’s probably transparent to the user)

      • Solar Bear@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        The goal here is to make it difficult to link to things uploaded to discord from outside of discord. The malware reason is BS. If they wanted to curb malware it would be as easy as making it a nitro feature. What that doesn’t fix is all the people piggybacking on discord as a free CDN.

        Discord isn’t even wrong for doing this. I just resent their dishonesty.

        • LufyCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not sure rolling it into Nitro would be worth the effort, I’d consider that quite complex personally

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if McAfee changing their name to Trellix to escape how much the general public hates them will work better than Comcast rebranding as Xfinity.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Yes, but I like this because it ingrains in people’s heads that when they hear Trelix they should think McAfee, to make that connection. Like with Xfinity, they don’t want that connection made, they want people thinking “Oh I don’t have that crappy Comcast service, I have Xfinity”. I’ll be saying it this way to show people that they’re the same thing

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s an annoying change for anyone using discord to share files outside of it’s closed platform but doesn’t affect most people.

    I wonder whether bridges for matrix have to be fixed or if they’re already editing messages bridged to matrix to the new url.

    • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Depends on how it’s implemented. Anyone using a “media proxy” will see their discord bridged media probably fail to load (outside of possible caches) after a day. Anyone who has their bridge configured to reupload discord media to their homeserver should see no change.