Warning: Your Windows credentials on Zoom are vulnerable to attackers | Malay Mail

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 — As organisations around the world revert to remote working setups, video conferencing app Zoom has certainly seen a rise in popularity. But this popularity is certainly a double-edged sword: privacy issues have come under the spotlight, while the company is the...

Thursday, 02 Apr 2020 03:51 PM MYTSmall toy figures are seen in front of diplayed Zoom logo in this illustration taken March 19, 2020. — Reuters pic

However, the issue here is that Zoom also converts Windows networking UNC paths into clickable links . When these links are clicked, Windows connects to the remote server — crucially, Windows will also send over login credentials while doing this.

 

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