Indirect dark matter detection: challenges and opportunities

I will briefly review the current status of WIMP indirect dark matter detection, identifying recent progresses and the hurdles to overcome in order to improve sensitivity. Particular attention will be paid to the charged cosmic ray channels, shaken in some of its basic approximations by a number of recent observations. I will then discuss how indirect probes also have some chances in constraining (or possibly detecting) DM models beyond the WIMP scenario, which are often hard to identify at (if not beyond the reach of) direct or collider searches.