Remove Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam Virus

Tips To Delete Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam Trojan

Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam is a social engineering technique used by cyber criminals to generate illicit revenues from novice users. In this scheme, the sextortion scam model is utilized, and hackers send thousands of deceptive emails claiming that a highly compromising video footage of the recipient has been obtained. It is claimed that the recordings were made through an exploit of an exposure found in the Zoom application which is a genuine conferencing service. These letters attempt to deceive recipients into paying a ransom so that the non-existent videos could not be publicized. You should ignore these fake emails as all the claims made by them are false.

More About Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam:

The “Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam” letters have title/subject “Regarding Zoom Conference call”; may vary. They state that recipient has recently used the Zoom conferencing service. The sender claims to have penetrated the user’s PC. Particularly, the scammers proclaim to have utilized the system’s camera and date relating to the recipient’s email account. The compromising video footage of a sexual nature has been recorded via the hijacked camera. The scam mails also threaten recipients to send the fake video to their contacts such as family, friends and colleagues.

Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam asks users to make a ransom payment of $2000 in BitCoins cryptocurrency to prevent the video from being spread. The amount must be paid within two days. It is also mentioned that the sender can’t be located and warn not to contact the authorities or take other foolish actions. As stated before, details provided by these emails are false. And thus, the recipients systems have not been penetrated, nor was any intimidating footage recorded. The main motive of these phishing emails s to trick users into paying ransom to the scammers. And hence, you must ignore these mails.

Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam is usually triggered to those system users whose PCs are already infected with a trojan virus. This hazardous threat disables the working of all the running security measures and Windows Firewalls and opens backdoors for more notorious infections. It may easily bring other hazardous parasites such as adware, ransomware, RATs, spyware etc. on your device and turn the machine into a malware-hub. And hence, a quick Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam virus removal is strongly recommended.

Threat Specification

Name– Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam

Category– Trojan, Phishing, Scam

Description– Scam emails claim a sexual video of the recipient will be publicized, unless they pay a ransom, steals users’ sensitive data for malicious purposes, Deactivates all the running security services of the compromised systems and drop more parasites in the machine as well as help the criminals to get access to system.

Ransom Amount: $2000 in Bitcoin cryptocurrency

Criminal Cryptowallet Address: 15y6ADpqBDvxNovWxeWEBXRGiPdj14vaKb (Bitcoin)

Symptoms– Slowness of system’s performance, fake error messages, security alerts, intrusive ads and pop-ups, unwanted redirects to questioning sites and so on.

Distribution– Spam email campaigns, malicious file downloads, P2P file sharing, and many more.

Removal– Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

Infiltration Of This Virus:

Trojans are kind of computer infections that mostly intrude the target devices using malspam campaign during which, thousands of phishing emails are sent by cyber criminals. These emails are often presented as important letters from some well-known companies or institutions. However, they often contain malicious files in several formats such as executables (.exe, .run, etc.), archives (RAR, ZIP, etc.), Microsoft Office and PDF documents, JavaScript, and so on. As soon as recipients execute these files, it triggers the installation of the malware.

And therefore, you should always scan the files first with a reputable anti-malware suite, attached with emails coming from unknown addresses before opening them. These emails are designed to trick recipients into downloading their attachments. So, be very careful whenever you receive an email from sender you don’t know.  But at the moment, you must remove Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam virus from the PC without wasting any time.

Text Presented In The Letter:

Subject: Regarding Zoom Conference call

Hello. I’ll need your attention now. This is the last warning.

You have used Zoom recently, like most of us during these bad COVID times. And I have very unfortunate news for you.

I’ll give you some background on what happened.

There was a zero day security vulnerability on Zoom app, that allowed me a full time access to your camera and some other metadata on your account.

You were just unlucky to be targeted.

And as you can imagine in your worst dreams, I have made a footage with you as a main actor.

You work on yourself (perform sex act to be clear). Having fun is ok with me, but is not ok with your reputation.

Please dont blame me or yourself for this. You couldn’t know that the camera was working.

I’m sure you don’t want to be the next Jeffrey Toobin and get embarrassed in front of all your friends, family and colleagues.

You should get this very clear, I will send this video to all your contacts if I dont get paid.

Are you wondering how I got your contacts? Through the same exploit, zoom app allowed me to extract all sensitive info from your device.

So here is what we will do. You pay me $2000 in bitcoin, and nothing of this will happen. You have 2 days to make the payment.

After I get the money, I will delete the footage and information about you. The amount is not negotiable.

Send 0.07 Bitcoin (about 2k USD at the current exchange rate) to my wallet 15y6ADpqBDvxNovWxeWEBXRGiPdj14vaKb

Having trouble with buying bitcoin? Just google on how to buy it, it’s very easy to use and anonymous.

P.S. Don’t try to report this to the police, I use TOR and bitcoin can’t be traced. Do not email me back. If you do something stupid, I will distribute the video.

Good luck. Don’t stress.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

Click Here For Windows Click Here For Mac

Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam:

Remove the related items of Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Zero Day Security Vulnerability On Zoom App Email Scam (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.