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Hackers have registered domains posing as Zoom and Microsoft Teams Hackers have registered domains posing as Zoom and Microsoft Teams and Google Meet-related URLs, according to a new report from Check Point Research. As significantly more people are using these videoconferencing services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the domains could be used to pose as official links, potentially tricking people into downloading malware or accidentally giving a bad actor access to personal information. In just the last three weeks, for example, 2,449 Zoom-related domains have been registered, and Check Point Research determined that 32 of those domains are malicious and 320 are “suspicious.” And in one instance of attempted phishing, hackers sent an email that looks like an official email from Microsoft Teams, but a button in the email to “open” Teams was actually a malicious URL that downloaded malware to the user’s computer. HACKERS ARE ALSO SEND PHISHING EMAILS POSING AS THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATI...

The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to file two antitrust charges against Google as soon as next month. This report was corroborated by the Wall Street Journal. According to  the NYT report , which cites “two people with knowledge of the situation,” the DOJ’s action against Google will be its biggest antitrust case since the infamous Microsoft case, and it will likely be joined by the attorneys general of several U.S. states as well. The  WSJ  says that the states, which are led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and will include New York, could file their own complaints a few months later. Google’s violations cut to the core of the search giant’s business model, which combines its acumen in Internet Search with online advertising. And it is dominant in both areas. The firm currently controls 90 percent of online searches in the United States and it earns roughly one dollar for every three spent on online advertising in this...