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COVID-19 – Hackers Begin Exploiting Zoom’s Overnight Success to Spread Malware

Over 1,700 new “Zoom” domains have been registered since onset of coronavirus pandemic. 25 percent of the domains were registered in the past seven days alone. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the spike in popularity of online communication platforms such as Zoom. Check Point researchers said they detected malicious files with the name “zoom-us-zoom_##########” that when executed, installed potentially unwanted programs such as InstallCore, a dodgy bundleware application that’s known to install other kinds of malware.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/zoom-video-coronavirus.html

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