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Since the pandemic, video meetings have become a cornerstone of business operations and a standard medium of collaboration. Therefore, these meetings often require notetaking on another platform to document the call’s proceedings. Now, users can take meeting notes right on Zoom. 

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This week, Zoom announced the rollout of Zoom Docs, an AI-first collaborative docs feature that enables users to work on documents together within the Zoom platform during and outside meetings.

Ukiah Branch Library will be hosting Lines and Spines Book Club on Zoom on Thursday, July 11 from 6-7 p.m.

Lines and Spines is scheduled for the first Thursday of every month, but will be meeting July 11 because the library is closed on July 4 for the Independence Day holiday. The July 11 book will be “Just As I Am” by Cicely Tyson.

Email Melissa Carr at carrm@mendocinocounty.org or call 707-234-2862 to sign up. All registrants will receive an email invite to participate via Zoom.

Zoom has been the number one tool for many remote workers through the years, replacing other platforms with popularity. In recent news, Zoom announced that Meta is discontinuing Workplace from Meta and partnering with Workvivo, now part of the Zoom family, to assist customers with the transition.

John Goulding, CEO and founder of Workvivo, said, “We know that the news today may be disruptive for Workplace from Meta customers, but we’re so excited about the opportunity to support and help them.

Meta has made a huge impact in this market, and we believe that Workvivo is the natural choice for Workplace from Meta customers to transition their employee experience platform.”

Eric S. Yuan, CEO of Zoom, added, “Since Workvivo joined the Zoom family, we’ve seen how powerful…

Some attackers use online meeting services as bait for malware. Researchers at Zscaler found fake Skype, Zoom and Google Meet websites that were used by threat actors to spread Remote Access Trojans – RAT for short.

Zscaler’s ThreatLabZ team warns about fake online meeting sites that distribute various malware families. Already at the beginning of December 2023, the researchers discovered a threat actor who creates fake Skype, Google Meet and Zoom websites to spread malware in order to spread remote access Trojans such as SpyNote RAT to Android users and NjRAT and DCRat to Windows users . These pages keep appearing in new versions.

🔎 The attack chain and execution flow for Android and Windows campaigns (Image: Zscaler).

Deceptively real web addresses as a trap

The malware actor…

Bad actors are using fake Zoom, Microsoft’s Skype and Google Meet websites to distribute malware.

As discovered by Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers, threat actors have been impersonating video conferencing brands to spread various malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023.

The spoofed sites, designed in Russian and hosted on URLs eerily similar to their legitimate versions, suggest that attackers are employing “typosquatting” tactics to entice potential victims into downloading malware — meaning some users might not notice the typo in the domain and so believe they will be on the legitimate website.

Zscaler ThreatLabz wrote:

The attacker utilized shared web hosting, hosting all these fake online meeting sites on a…