Zoom: You may have noticed that many laptop owners choose to cover their cameras either with special covers or (most often) with simple tape. The reason they choose to sometimes disfigure the design of the device is the concern that someone could tamper with the device and activate the camera, without their knowledge. Moreover, given that they are integrated into the screen, it is not that easy to get rid of them.
Unfortunately, it seems that the concerns are becoming reality, at least for Mac users .
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Zoom Mac client. For those unfamiliar, Zoom is a video conferencing client, and according to researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, the flaw allows websites to make a video call to any Mac that has the app installed.
According to Leitschuh, this flaw is partly due to the fact that Zoom creates and runs a local web server as a background process on the host machine. This is due to a workaround as part of the changes made in Safari 12.So far, the problem does not appear to have been fully resolved.
The researcher wrote: “Zoom took care to patch the vulnerability but not with great success as all it did was prevent the attacker from activating the user’s camera. has not been disabled The ability to add a victim to a video call without their knowledge. “It has been said that until the issue is fully resolved, users should disable video while participating in a meeting.”
