More than half a million Zoom accounts are being sold over the dark web

The exposed credentials are not the result of a breach but, rather, of what's called a credential stuffing attack. What you need to know Nearly half a million Zoom accounts have been exposed and are being sold on the dark web. The exposed credentials are not the result of an attack on, or a breach of, Zoom's servers. Instead, they're the result of hackers trying credentials from previous leaks on users' Zoom accounts to see if they work. If you were already concerned about the myriad security issues plaguing the incidental beneficiary of our combined desire for a video conferencing service in light of the pandemic currently ravaging the world, here's some more bad news: over 500,000 Zoom accounts are presently either on sale or being distributed on dark web hacker forums. As Bleeping Computer reports, these are not the result of a breach of Zoom's servers. The cause of their exposure is much simpler: what's called a credential stuffing attack, a technique in which hackers aggre...
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