
Fake Zoom meeting silently installs surveillance software, says Malwarebytes
The latest fake Zoom meeting scam silently pushes surveillance software onto the Windows computers of unwitting employees. That’s according to researchers at Malwarebytes, who warn that staff falling for the scam land in a convincing imitation of a Zoom video call. Moments later, an automatic “Update Available” countdown downloads a malicious installer, without asking permission. The software installed is a covert build of Teramind, a commercial monitoring tool companies use to record what employees do on work computers. Many anti-malware solutions may not catch this because it would look like a legitimate application. But in the hands of a threat actor it’s gold: It logs keystrokes, takes s...