Ever since there is a lockdown across the globe tools like the cloud computing services and even the messengers like Zoom messenger have been in huge demand. At present, Zoom has more than 74,000 customers along with 13 million active users. That has been the case since Zoom gives organizations the ability to take up multiple chats and conduct audio and video conferencing.
Such statistics can amaze organizations or investors. However, this is something that has caught the eye of the cybercriminal across the globe. And has resulted in fake registration for Zoom domains and malicious Zoom executable files were shared. This can trick people who are not technically qualified to make out the difference between the right file. And can get trapped in a malware attack.
In fact, Hacker News has confirmed over
1700 new Zoom domains were registered in just one week.
This goes to show that Zoom messenger has become quite a popular application since the lockdown. Now the surprising thing is that Zoom Messenger is not only being utilized amongst employees associated with organizations but is also being used by students. In fact, even the government is using Zoom to connect with one another.
This is not the first time that Zoom massager has caught the eye of the cybercriminals. In
January 2020 Zoom had undergone an attack. Prior to that attack, anyone could access the conference call. For example, Abc Co. Hosted a conference for its sales teams and cybercriminal got its link now this person can access the data and file of Abc Co. by just staying connected to their network interface. And this is something that costly for Zoom hence, it added a password to it to fix this loophole.
Zoom knows that they are successful messenger, and this has been catching the eye of the cybercriminals. So, they keep implementing changes in their messenger. Just like that, they have found that since Zoom as a domain is being registered over and over again which is a fake application.
In order to avoid this one should refrain from downloading this. If it is very important for someone to attend given meet you should ask your fellow peer or colleagues for its referral link so that you have been accessing the right messenger instead of falling in the trap.
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