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title: "Researchers found a major Zoom vulnerability using under 20 AI prompts"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/researchers-found-a-major-zoom-vulnerability-using-under-20-ai-prompts-2841c6
source_name: "The Verge"
source_url: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977909/zoom-vulnerability-ai-attack
published: 2026-08-11T14:45:44.000Z
topics: ["security"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Researchers found a major Zoom vulnerability using under 20 AI prompts

*2026-08-11 · Source: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977909/zoom-vulnerability-ai-attack)*

Zoom patched a serious security flaw, nicknamed "Zoomsday," that could let an attacker hijack a participant's device during a meeting by abusing the screen-annotation feature. Researchers at A Security said they found the exploit using fewer than 20 prompts to publicly available AI models, and it required no action from the victim beyond being in the meeting.

**Why it matters:** This is a concrete example of AI lowering the skill floor for vulnerability discovery in widely used software, a trend security researchers have been warning about as coding-capable models get better at find-and-exploit workflows. It's also a reminder that the same AI-assisted techniques used defensively here could just as easily be used by attackers before a patch ships.

**Topics:** security

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