Zoom Patches Three New Bugs in Scramble to Support Remote Workers

Zoom has announced a freeze on new features as it grapples with emerging security and privacy issues, including three new security bugs revealed this week.

The video conferencing app has been catapulted into the mainstream after widespread COVID-19 government lockdowns across the globe force home working and schooling on a massive scale. The number of daily meeting participants has grown from 10 million in December to roughly 200 million in March, according to the firm.

However, this has led to increased scrutiny of the platform: researchers this week published details of a new vulnerability in the Zoom Windows client which could be exploited to steal user passwords, and two flaws in the macOS app which could be abused to remotely install malware or eavesdrop on users.

These follow discoveries of serious vulnerabilities in the product last year.

Although Zoom CEO Eric Yuan revealed in a post on Thursday that the firm had promptly patched all three bugs disclosed this week, concerns persist about the platform’s approach to security and privacy.

Organizations as diverse as the UK’s Ministry of Defence, SpaceX and NASA have banned employees from using the tool, and there has been widespread criticism after the firm appeared to mislead users into thinking their video meetings were end-to-end encrypted, when in fact they aren’t.

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