It seems that for 2020 its cheaters Internet they preferred to pretend to be Microsoft and Zoom companies to look for victims through phishing tactics.
You've probably seen those emails where a scammer pretends to be a certain company, but have you ever wondered which companies are most in demand for impersonators? As it turns out, 2020 was the year of Microsoft and Zoom-related fraud, as the pandemic of COVID-19 they changed the way we used the internet.
Because scammers loved Microsoft and Zoom in 2020.
The AtlasVPN reported about how the scammers worked in 2020 and which companies they chose as a pretext. 69,77 percent of fraudsters accounted for Microsoft, while Zoom came in second with 9,3%.
But why did Microsoft and Zoom take the top positions? If you think about the big events that happened in 2020, the biggest one was by far the global spread of COVID-19 and the push of people to work from home.
It seems that the two biggest players in the remote meetings scene for 2020 were Microsoft Teams and Zoom. That's why both companies were preferred by fraudsters.
So amid the panic of users trying to get organized online, scammers started sending emails impersonating Microsoft and Zoom. Since there are several users who are still not very tech savvy, were likely to fall victim to a fake email.
As such, it will be interesting to see if Microsoft and Zoom decline in popularity among scammers as the COVID-19 pandemic presumably begins to subside in 2021. Microsoft may retain its top spot as scammers enjoy using the company name for other businesses as well, such as tech scams supports.
How long Zoom will report will depend on whether users stay with Zoom or switch to another teleconferencing service. And logically the scammers will move too following the usage statistics.