She added: "About twenty minutes into the talk, there was a bit of noise and I wondered if it was a kid that had unmuted one of the attendees. So, obviously, it was coordinated and targeted and planned. It was local history - not something you would think would bring a targeted attack. In an interview with Dublin Live, Dr McAulifee said: She said: "I was just giving a lecture to a local history society on revolutionary violence against women in County Clare. It comes after UCD lecturer Dr Mary McAuliffe was hosting a talk on violence against women, and was "zoom bombed" by raiders who shouted sexist language and showed pornographic images.ĭr McAuliffe was in the middle of a talk on gender-based violence against women in Clare to a local history society when the "horrific" attack took place. On public forums such as Discord and Reddit, efforts have been coordinated to disrupt Zoom sessions, while certain Twitter accounts advertise meeting ids and passwords or meeting links (allowing users to instantly join a meeting instead of entering the credentials required to access) for sessions that were vulnerable to being joined without authorization.
Zoom-bombing has caused significant issues in particular for schools, colleges, companies, and organizations worldwide. Once the hackers gain access to a meeting, typically they share their screens in order to take control of the meeting and bombard attendees with illicit content.
It happens when a zoom meeting link is posted on social media without the host's permission.Ī Zoom bomber’s goal is to wreak havoc in a variety of ways.Ī session is ultimately hijacked by unwanted participants and generally material that is lewd, obscene, racist, misogynistic is shared as part of the attack. ‘Zoom-bombing or Zoom raiding’ refers to the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call.
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