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Most attacks are social engineering. Everything else, to the best of my knowledge, does not target passwords


The biggest attack is persistent login tokens that are stored on a device, eg. Discord has an issue with malware (disguised as DMs from random people asking "do you want to try out a beta for my game") that steals the login token from appdata, using it to purchase a bunch of gifted nitro and perpetuate the scam via that user's account.




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