A vulnerability has been discovered in the Zoom client for Windows which leaves users exposed to remote attackers.<\/p>\n
This remote code execution vulnerability only affects users who are running Windows 7 or an older Windows operating system, said security company 0patch<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “While Microsoft’s official support for Windows 7 has ended this January, there are still millions of home and corporate users out there prolonging its life with Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates or with 0patch,” noted the security company.<\/p>\n 0patch said that the vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute malicious code on the victim’s computer by getting the user to perform common actions such as opening a document file.<\/p>\n “No security warning is shown to the user in the course of attack,” 0patch added.<\/p>\n According to 0patch, the users who have signed up to Windows 7 Extended Security Updates are also affected.<\/p>\n The security company said it has created a micropatch that deals with the vulnerability.<\/p>\n However, installing this micropatch is no longer necessary, as Zoom has since patched<\/strong><\/a> the bug in version 5.1.3 of its Windows client.<\/p>\n This means that users who have updated to the latest version of Zoom are protected from this security flaw.<\/p>\n Support for Windows 7 officially ended on 14 January, which means that Microsoft has stopped providing security support for this operating system.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile you could continue to use your PC running Windows 7, without continued software and security updates, it will be at greater risk for viruses and malware,\u201d said<\/strong><\/a> Microsoft.<\/p>\n \u201cGoing forward, the best way for you to stay secure is on Windows 10.\u201d<\/p>\n News of Windows 7 losing support saw the operating system’s market share decrease<\/strong><\/a> rapidly from 35.38% in June 2019 to 25.56% in January 2020.<\/p>\n Since January, however, the trend has flattened considerably, dropping from 25.56% in January 2020 to 23.35% as of June 2020.<\/p>\n A vulnerability has been discovered in the Zoom client for Windows which leaves users exposed to remote attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":345833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65627,5214,13651],"class_list":["post-359733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-0patch","tag-windows-7","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359739,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359733\/revisions\/359739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Windows 7 support is over<\/h3>\n
Now read: No, Google and Apple have not installed a COVID-19 tracing app on your phone<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"