News Hackers Using Zoom’s Popularity in Coronavirus Outbreak to Infect Computers

[Mr.Kurd]

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Zoom is very popular now due to online studying on the other hand hackers are not silly also they have took advantage of this process of education:

Cybercriminals continue to use the Coronavirus outbreak to launch various attacks such as malware, phishing, fraud, and disinformation campaigns.

In the current situation, most of the organization has been closed and the employees are provided with options to work from home. So the RDP and the video communication platforms usage will be high.

It was observed more than 5000+ domains registered for creating infrastructure to support malicious campaigns referring to COVID-19.


Checkpoint observed a huge number of domain’s registered with the names that include “Zoom”, the Zoom is one of the biggest video communication platform used in the world.

“Since the beginning of the year, more than 1700 new domains were registered and 25% of them were registered in the past week. Out of these registered domains, 4% have been found to contain suspicious characteristics.”

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