As remote work continues to be standard practice, understanding the security architecture of communication platforms like Zoom becomes increasingly crucial for maintaining organizational data protection. Zoom Team Chat employs a sophisticated encryption system using SQLCipher with custom parameters (page size 1024 and KDF iterations set to 4000) to protect user conversations. As organizations worldwide continue to rely on Zoom for remote collaboration, these findings highlight important security considerations for the platform’s estimated 300 million daily users. “This layered key setup makes analyzing Zoom Team Chat data more complex than typical app data,” researcher said. “Since the encryption key is only stored on the devices of recipients, Zoom is also unable to assist with recovery,” according to Zoom’s support documentation. Cyber Security News is a Dedicated News Platform For Cyber News, Cyber Attack News, Hacking News & Vulnerability Analysis. Kaaviya is a Security Editor and fellow reporter with Cyber Security News. She is covering various cyber security incidents happening in the Cyber Space. Organizations should be aware that communications might be recoverable through forensic methods, even when using Zoom’s encryption features. When ACE is enabled, “keys are generated by the user’s device and shared only with the other chat participants’ devices”.
This Cyber News was published on cybersecuritynews.com. Publication date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:55:05 +0000