Technology-interested sites have confirmed that the developer of the popular Zoom video calling app is currently working to correct a software vulnerability that could threaten the security of information for many of the app’s users.
According to experts at ACROS Security, which specializes in data security, the mentioned vulnerability, which is dubbed “Day of Zero,” threatens users of the Zoom application who use the application from computers using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems and earlier versions of “Windows”,
This vulnerability, according to experts, does not affect application users from phones or users from computers with Windows 8 or Windows 8 systems.
The CEO of the aforementioned company, Mitja Kolsek, said: This vulnerability could allow hackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim’s computer where Zoom Client is installed for Windows, and the most dangerous thing is that the operating system does not give any warning to the user during the implementation of the electronic attack on His device. “
“Our company notified the company responsible for Zoom of the existence of this vulnerability, and we issued a security update to prevent this type of attack, pending the latter launching an update to implement it to deal with the matter.”