Discord squashes critical Electron bugs: open source attacks continue to grow

Discord squashes critical Electron bugs: open source attacks continue to grow

My colleague has two kids, ages 9 and 12.  Since the COVID lockdowns they have been playing more online games and each of them use Discord to chat with their friends during gameplay.  Did my colleague or the millions of other Discord users think that vulnerabilities in open source libraries used in the application could result in a takeover of their machines? 

Article Link: https://blog.sonatype.com/discord-squashes-critical-electron-bugs-open-source-attacks-continue-to-grow