Popular third-party chat platforms like Slack, Discord, and Telegram are just a few of the many new productivity applications that are being hijacked by cybercriminals to create command-and-control (C&C) communications infrastructures for their malware campaigns. As corporate security teams become more aware of traditional malware threats and deploy new security solutions to defend against them, cybercriminals continue to innovate. Now they’ve turned to well-known chat and social media applications as platforms to communicate with their deployed malware.

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