Passwords and email addresses for thousands of Zoom accounts are for sale on the dark web.
One hacker forum, seen by NBC News, discussed using a tool called OpenBullet — which lets users feed large sets of existing usernames and passwords to try to log into different sites — successfully on Zoom. This is a common strategy known as credential stuffing and takes advantage of people who reuse passwords and usernames.
“No matter how this information got out, there is a high likelihood that Zoom could have prevented it,” said Lou Rabon, CEO and founder of Cyber Defense Group, which does IT security for companies. He explained that these kinds of attacks can be stopped if companies implement two-factor authentication.The large dataset was obtained by Cyble, a threat intelligence organization based in Georgia.
“Every day is a crisis,” Yuan said in a previous interview with NBC News. “But now I'm just moving forward and doubling down on privacy and security and do all we can to make our service better and better.”
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