July 2020 – Newsletter, Fake Zoom Suspension Alerts

As many of us continue to work from home throughout the summer, our Zoom usage isn’t slowing down any time soon. Zoom, the cloud-based communication platform we’ve all come to love is unfortunately not immune to phishing campaigns with Microsoft 365 users as the latest target. The new scam uses Zoom notifications to warn those who work in corporate environments that their Zoom account has been suspended. The end goal is to steal Office 365 logins. The impersonated account suspension alerts have already landed in over 50,000 mailboxes based on information provided by researchers from email security company, Abnormal Security, who spotted the ongoing attacks. With the dramatic increase of remote workers using Zoom throughout the pandemic, those being targeted are more willing to trust these emails than they might normally be. To learn more about this scam, and to see an example email, visit here.