Bad enough that people have found themselves trying to work from home for the first time in their lives, perching their laptop on the end of the sofa.
Stressful enough that they’re having to remain productive while overseeing their kids attending remote school lessons, battling the frustrations of Google Classroom.
Challenging enough to keep the household something approaching sane whilst having a video conference call with those colleagues who haven’t been furloughed (yet).
With all this going on, you certainly aren’t going to feel good about an email arriving from your company’s HR team asking you to join a Zoom meeting immediately to discuss your Q1 performance with the topic “Contract suspension / Termination Trial”
That would be pretty ominous wouldn’t it?
As the researchers at Abnormal Security describe, computer users are being targeted with phishing emails that have adopted just that disguise.
The risk, of course, is that employees working from home for the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown will all-too-quickly believe they have received a genuine invitation to a video meeting with HR, click on the link to a fake Zoom webpage, and hand their corporate email login credentials over to criminals.
Remember – there is no legitimate reason for Zoom to ask for your email address password.
Don’t be too quick to click. Cybercriminals are exploiting the Coronavirus pandemic with social engineering techniques to trick unsuspecting users into clicking on malicious links.
Stay safe out there.
I notice you can join a meeting and dont need "signinup" either.