By Anthony Berrios
Blog Post #19
Zoom is in the news again today as hackers have recently claimed that they have discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities for the Zoom video conferencing platform that would allow threat actors to spy on people’s private video conferences and further exploit a target’s system.
Vice Motherboard recently reported that the flaws target the Zoom clients for both Windows and MacOS. Hackers are asking for $500,000 for the Windows exploit as per the report. Two cyber security day brokers who the report did not name came forward saying they were approached to sell the zero day code.
The biggest thing as of right now is that this code seems to be circumstantial, at least for now. None of the cyber security brokers have seen any of the code the hackers were claiming to be selling, but this doesn’t mean that these vulnerabilities are made up. Especially with Zoom being in the news so much recently it only makes sense that hackers had shifted their attention to the virtual meeting platform. Motherboard even stated that they could not find any substantial evidence to back these claims from the hacker but again, this doesn’t mean the claims don’t have any truth to them.
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