‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
The Verge Emma Roth ● Covered by 2 sources
Zoom patched a bug that could let someone hijack a device in a meeting. Researchers say they found it with fewer than 20 prompts to public AI models.
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Zoom has patched a serious security flaw that could have let an attacker take over another person’s device during a meeting. The issue was flagged by researchers at A Security, who said they found it using fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models, according to Wired’s earlier reporting.
The weak spot was Zoom’s annotation tool, the feature that lets people draw on a shared screen. That sounds harmless enough. It wasn’t. By abusing it, an attacker could join or host a meeting and run malicious code on a victim’s device.
Once inside, the possibilities were ugly: stealing data, switching on the camera or microphone, or installing malware. The attack didn’t require the victim to do anything special, which is the part that should make Zoom users sit up a little straighter.
Zoom says the vulnerability has been patched. That closes this one off, but the bigger story is how quickly AI models can help researchers uncover flaws that might otherwise linger quietly in widely used software.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is another reminder that “harmless collaboration feature” is often code for “future incident report.” The awkward truth is that AI is getting very good at finding the cracks humans leave behind, which is great until it isn’t. Security teams should probably assume the next weird bug will be found by a chatbot before a person.
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