The number of incidents, known among security experts as "video teleconferencing (VTC) hijacking," has been alarming enough that it prompted a warning from the FBI earlier this week. Comments were made about them in the chat function." FBI issues warning, tips "Two YWCA employees were sexually harassed. "They started shouting racial epithets, they shouted the N-word," said YWCA Canada CEO, Maya Roy.
Russ Klein, the head of a Jewish high school in Vancouver, told CBC News that a community gathering the school was hosting on Zoom on Tuesday was infiltrated.Įarlier this week, a 250-guest virtual town hall held by YWCA Canada to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on women was Zoom-bombed as well. Zoom-bombing is becoming more frequent in Canada, as well, with unidentified visitors entering private online meetings and classrooms to spew racial and sexist slurs.
Then he saw letters spelling out the N-word. then another circle and then I see another shape. It's a penis." students of colour, specifically black students," said Johnson, 28, in a Skype interview from Long Beach, Calif. " As I'm talking about this, I see a circle on my screen. People participating in meetings and lessons via video conference platforms like Zoom can find their screens hijacked by malicious actors who can put words and images on the screen and in the chat box or create havoc with the audio.ĭennis Johnson said he was in the middle of a video conference defending his doctoral dissertation - about the struggles of African Americans in California's education system - when he started seeing profanity appear on the screen. But a growing number of so-called Zoom-bombing incidents is prompting warnings from the FBI and from the victims themselves. Zoom has emerged as an indispensable video conferencing tool for remote work and study as millions of people are forced to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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