Zoom’s shares have more than doubled this year as buyers wager that the teleconferencing firm could be one of many uncommon winners from the coronavirus pandemic. The corporate has turn out to be wildly in style, reaching greater than 200 million day by day assembly individuals in March, in keeping with its weblog. However it has additionally drawn elevated scrutiny from cybersecurity and privateness consultants.

The newest incident got here on Monday when Patrick Wardle, principal safety researcher at Jamf, published a blog about two new flaws in Zoom. If already contaminated with malware, the Mac OS desktop model may allow attackers to realize high-level privileges and hijack the webcam and microphone, he stated. Zoom said it subsequently launched fixes for the problems.