New Delhi (NVI): The Ministry of Home Affairs today said that video conferencing app Zoom is not safe as it is vulnerable to cyberattacks while asking government officials not to use the platform for official purposes in an advisory.
The ministry’s advisory bears significance as many companies are asking their employees to work from home amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord), under MHA, issued the advisory, along with details of protective measures to be taken by individuals.
“The broad objective of this advisory is to prevent any unauthorized entry into a Zoom Conference Room and prevent the unauthorized participant to carry out malicious attacks on the terminals of other users in the conference,” the MHA said in a statement.
Earlier, India’s nodal cybersecurity agency – Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-in) had also cautioned that the video conferencing app Zoom is not safe and vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
