Zoom-bombing gradually began to subside after the FBI issued a statement on March 30, characterizing it as a cybercrime that should be reported to law enforcement agencies. While the company sought to communicate best practices to prevent Zoom-bombing, it continued to proliferate, leading users and shareholders alike to organize an online petition and threaten class-action lawsuits. READ MORE: Zoom fatigue? How to tell loved ones you don’t want to video chatĪnd yet, it has been the Zoom-bomb - the interruption of Zoom meetings - that has led to considerable news media attention since mid-March. The cancellation of in-person school and university classes prompted a stock market surge for Zoom, along with considerable scrutiny of the video conferencing company’s startlingly weak privacy and security protocols. The term derives from photo-bombing, which is defined as appearing “ behind or in front of someone when their photograph is being taken, usually doing something silly as a joke.” However, for many Zoom online meeting hosts, participants and computing infrastructure managers, Zoom-bombing was no joke. As COVID-19 circulated the globe in March, reports emerged of another new, viral threat: “Zoom-bombing.”
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