Miscreants attacking Zoom with malware; security on users' systems being compromised

When it comes to video conferencing, Zoom is among most popular platforms in world. With hundreds of millions of daily active users, platform hosts multiple online meetings including business conferences, project manment meetings and even online classes. However, as platform caters to such a wide variety of users. it has grabbed attention of hackers and bad actors.

Google Project Zero reports ongoing cyberattacks on Zoom

According to a recent report by Google's Project Zero, hackers are using Zoom to target users around world. Using video conferencing platform, bad actors are sending a simple mess to target users, putting ir devices at risk. w, unlike or spam messs, hackers are using some new technique wherein user does t even need to interact with mess. All hacker needs to do is send a mess to a Zoom user over XMPP protocol to compromise user's system and deploy malware. 

Zoom has ackwledged bug and marked it as a threat with high severity. Zoom has also scored threat an 8.1 out of 10 on Common Vulnerability Scoring System. Additionally, security issue affects users of Zoom on all platforms including Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux and more. Thankfully, users can update version of Zoom installed on ir devices to version 5.10.0 to evade security issue. 

Microsoft Teams was also targetted by hackers earlier this year

Earlier this year, ar popular video interaction platform Microsoft Teams was being used by bad actors to extract personal information. In a report by Avanan (cyber security firm), users were warned about such cyberattacks that had been going on since January. firm has discovered thousands of attacks on Microsoft Teams, wherein bad actors are sending Trojan-loaded documents and files on Teams via chat section. report also mentions name of this file to be "User-Centric" and when this file is installed by a user, it tries to write data on Windows registry. 

As a general practice, users should t click on links or any or files sent by unkwn sources, eir on text mess or on messaging platforms like WhatsApp. Additionally, users should be careful about files and applications y download from internet. Even on Gmail, users should be alert about clicking on attachments and links if sender is unkwn as it might be an attempt to comprise ir system.