It's not blown out of proportions. If anything the major securities issues went mostly unnoticed in the noise of the media trying to bank some ads revenues.
There were 2 RCE that would have allowed anybody to easily take over any computer using zoom. The first one last year was wormable, triggered by simply visiting a website with no interaction (like a javascript ad).
Other video conference tools don't have these because they didn't try to provide the same features or work around the OS.
Except for Skype, that still has one samba relay attack left like zoom, that went mostly unnoticed. From my research they had the exact same issue but blocked the RCE part in 2018 CVE-2018-8311 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8311
There were 2 RCE that would have allowed anybody to easily take over any computer using zoom. The first one last year was wormable, triggered by simply visiting a website with no interaction (like a javascript ad).
Other video conference tools don't have these because they didn't try to provide the same features or work around the OS.
Except for Skype, that still has one samba relay attack left like zoom, that went mostly unnoticed. From my research they had the exact same issue but blocked the RCE part in 2018 CVE-2018-8311 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8311