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HACKERS LEAK ZOOM ACCOUNTS’ USERNAMES, PASSWORDS, FULL NAMES AND EMAIL ADDRESSES

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Forced social distancing has unusually driven the use of remote communication platforms such as Skype, Hangouts, WhatsApp and mainly Zoom, which has shown a prominent growth in terms of its number of users a couple of months ago, mention specialists of a cyber security course. Academic institutions, government offices and private companies have resorted to using Zoom to maintain their primary activities relatively normal.
Zoom’s rise in popularity has not gone unnoticed by the cybersecurity community, which has begun to point to some questionable practices that previously went unnoticed. One of the obvious errors is a very weak privacy policy, which allows for unnecessary and invasive data collection for users. In addition, an attack variant known as “zoombombing” was recently revealed, which would allow a threat actor to suddenly block a meeting.


These are not the only issues that have been identified in Zoom. A group of researchers from the cyber security course has published a report detailing how Zoom has become an ideal platform for online scammers, who have managed to extract login credentials from more than 350 verified accounts. This information is available on some hacker forums hosted on dark web.

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