Hackers target Discord with ‘Vare’ malware

A new type of malware known as ‘Vare’ has been found to be spread through the widely-used chat platform, Discord, which has over 300 million active users. Researchers from CyberArk Labs, a US-based identity security company, discovered the malware and observed that it utilises Discord to carry out its activities.

Written in Python, Vare is a type of malware that serves as an information stealer. It employs Discord as both a target for theft and an infrastructure for data exfiltration – the unauthorised removal or transfer of data from a device.

Discord Nitro has been identified as the root cause of the malware’s presence on the platform.