Recently a friend of mine showed me a way to use hyperlinks on Discord. Discord has a markdown notation support, so users can enhance their messages with formatting, using bold, itallic, titles, etc. It's also possible to use what Discord calls masked links, which are hyperlinks, just like normal markdown, using the syntax [text](https://example.com)
. The result is the following:
In the context of cybersecurity, one of the first things that comes to mind is to try to make a fake link, putting another URL on the "text" part. It would be something like [https://example.com](https://malicious.com)
. By doing so, an user would see the URL https://example.com
, but by clicking on it, he would be redirected to https://malicious.com
.