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Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold on Hacker Forums, the Dark Web

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-much-value dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:

Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web:

Over 500,000 Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free.

These credentials are gathered through credential stuffing attacks where threat actors attempt to login to Zoom using accounts leaked in older data breaches. The successful logins are then compiled into lists that are sold to other hackers.

Some of these Zoom accounts are offered for free on hacker forums so that hackers can use them in zoom-bombing pranks and malicious activities. Others are sold for less than a penny each.

Cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble told BleepingComputer that around April 1st, 2020, they began to see free Zoom accounts being posted on hacker forums to gain an increased reputation in the hacker community.

These accounts are shared via text sharing sites where the threat actors are posting lists of email addresses and password combinations.

In the below example, 290 accounts related to colleges such as the University of Vermont, University of Colorado, Dartmouth, Lafayette, University of Florida, and many more were released for free.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:24PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:24PM (#983038)

    Even less then a penny per account seems like they are overcharging, considering their horrible lack of security etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @02:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @02:40PM (#983069)

      And when one account gets zoombombed users open up a new one. For free!

  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:28PM (1 child)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:28PM (#983089)

    It's a shite service, we get it. So is the rest of The Cloud[tm]: concentrate on other targets for a change.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:13PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:13PM (#983163) Journal

      It is an interesting saga. Chinese teleconference software with severe privacy and security risks getting popular as the effects of the Chinese virus set in. Maybe we don't need daily updates on it, but it should be watched closely.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:52PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:52PM (#983098) Homepage Journal

    So, is being sold on "hacker forums" and the dark web better or worse than them being sold openly on craigslist? Aside from sounding scarier to folks who don't use their brains, I mean.

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  • (Score: 3, Disagree) by robobox on Wednesday April 15 2020, @05:02PM (2 children)

    by robobox (9927) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @05:02PM (#983128)

    This would be less likely to happen if we just had a open videocalling standard, as you could easily encrypt it and you are not relying on one company.

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