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Phishing Targets Thanksgiving Zoom Meetings.

Bleeping Computer, By Lawrence Abrams November 26, 2020

Warning: Massive Zoom phishing targets Thanksgiving gatherings.

Everyone should be on the lookout for a massive phishing attack underway today, pretending to be an invitation to a Zoom meeting. Hosted on many landing pages, BleepingComputer has learned that thousands of user credentials have already been stolen by the attack. (Sources)

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. Historically, Thanksgiving was a day of celebration in European peasant societies during which people thanked God with prayers and rejoicing for the blessings they had received during the year. (Source)

Zoom Video Communications is an American teleconferencing services company based in San Jose, California. It provides a remote conferencing service that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat and mobile collaboration using proprietary applications.

THEPhishing, phishing or scamming is a technique used by fraudsters to obtain personal information with the aim of perpetrating identity theft. The technique consists of making the victim believe that they are speaking to a trusted third party – bank, administration, etc. — in order to extract personal information: password, credit card number, date of birth, etc. Indeed, most often, an exact copy of a website is made with the aim of making the victim believe that they are on the official website where they thought they were connecting. The victim will thus enter his personal codes which will be recovered by the person who created the fake site, he will thus have access to the victim's personal data, and for example in the context of a game, will be able to steal everything that the victim owns. on the game.

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