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Are popular platforms are targeted by Cyber Criminals?



Are popular platforms are targeted by Cyber Criminals? The latest report of Zoom meeting shown that they are some privacy issues in ZOOM application which resulted in data breach.

The information from media sources tells that personal information such as Name, Email ID etc. got leaked.



ZOOM meeting app was found in 2011, Since the application is launched there are millions of users accessing it for education, business and other purposes.

This COVID-19 pandemic made the world to lockdown. This resulted in Virtual meetings, classes etc.

This increased in the number of users of ZOOM application made the ZOOM platform into trending platform and brought the attention of Cyber Criminals and resulted in the data breach of users.

Before COVID-19 pandemic there is no history of a data breach of the platforms. Only after the application becoming mostly used application then the cyber criminals started to finding its vulnerabilities and exploited the applications.

Soon after this incident ZOOM responded in a positive way stating the Privacy and Security are its main motive and fixed the issue.


Note: The above written is blog is completely my assumptions that how the platform got exposed to Cyber Criminals.

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  1. Rj SMMay 20, 2020 at 9:51 AM

    Great information Mr. Roshan!, expecting more to come.... 🙂

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