This meant the Zoom app was being installed without users providing final consent, thanks to a misleading prompt that automated the install process. Software engineer Felix Seele discovered earlier this week that Zoom’s macOS installer works around Apple’s OS restrictions by using “the same tricks that are being used by macOS malware” to get its software on Macs.
Zoom is facing a variety of privacy and security issues this week, and the company is already responding to some of them rather quickly.