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Zoom for macOS: No hacker can hack your account now- Know how

Zoom, an online video collaboration platform has reportedly fixed the most dangerous bug on Apple macOS that could allow hackers to take control of users' operating systems when they open the meeting app. The company said in a security update that the Zoom client for meetings for macOS, starting with version 5.7.3 and before 5.11.5, "contains a vulnerability in the auto-update process". "A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges to root," said the company, Zoom acknowledged the issue and said it had issued a fix in version 5.11.5 of the app on Mac, which users can now download. Earlier, a security researcher found a way that an attacker could leverage the macOS version of Zoom to gain access to the entire operating system.

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