Cyber Alert: According to the government, hackers have an eye on Zoom's videos and audios and due to its vulnerability, hackers can easily hack it.
Cyber Alert: If you use video calling apps, do so with caution. Recently, the Zoom video-calling platform has come under cyber attack. If you do too, be sure to use the update right away. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an alert regarding this. According to CERT-In, hackers have an eye on Zoom's videos and audios and due to its vulnerability, hackers can easily hack it. Zoom and the government have advised every user to update it. Let's know how to protect.
According to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, it has been confirmed that hackers can take control of audio and video feeds and due to this, video or audio meetings can also be interrupted.
How was it identified?
The government and Zoom have identified this vulnerability as CVE-2022-28758, CVE-2022-28759, and CVE-2022-28760, which could affect Zoom's on-premises meeting connector MMR. Zoom reported that in fact, in the on-premises meeting connector MMR, the organization connects the meeting connector virtual machine to the internal company network. Through this, companies are able to hold meetings on the private cloud. However, on September 19, the government issued an alert regarding this. Zoom had issued an advisory on 13 September itself.
Update to the latest version of Zoom
To update Zoom on Windows, macOS or Linux, log in to Zoom.
Go to the client and click on your profile picture there.
Here's about the update. Click the link.
Zoom will be downloaded. Now install it.
To update smartphone users, go to Google Play or Apple App Store and update to the latest version. Meanwhile, CERT-In also said that users should also update Google Chrome quickly.
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