This kind of attack generally does not affect our large enterprise customers that use their own single sign-on systems. “'It is common for web services that serve consumers to be targeted by this type of activity, which typically involves bad actors testing large numbers of already compromised credentials from other platforms to see if users have reused them elsewhere. Update: Zoom has provided the following statement. If you set up a Zoom account using one of your old passwords, install one of these apps now and then go reset it to something much more secure. You won’t have to, though, if you install a good password management app like 1Password, DashLane, or LastPass. Passwords so strong you can’t even remember them. To keep your own account from falling victim to a brute force attacks use unique, strong passwords. Creating a new account on Zoom - or any service, for that matter - is simply not a good idea. Usernames, email addresses, and passwords have been exposed by the billions over the past several years. They’re actively using them to break into accounts using brute force attacks. The problem is that by now all of those old stand-by passwords have been filed away in databases by criminal hackers.
