Hackers try to take advantage of video meetings

A number of new domains have been registered with names that include the string "zoom", trying to fool people to visit the malicious sites. We will indoubtly get phishing mails containing these false URLs and files.

Zoom is being used as an example, but all video services may be the targets for hacker attacks and phishing campaigns. It has also been noticed that false executables posing as zoom-instances have been released.

Be suspiscious before accepting an unknown invitation for a video meeting. If you feel unsafe, contact the sender by phone and ask if this is a legit invitation link for a video meeting or not.

Regarding Zoom, if you don't want to click at a received link to enter a meeting, you can log in to Zoom first and then enter the digital code that identifies a particular Zoom meeting.