Gal also recommends victims take screen captures of the attack as it occurs. It's also possible the company could report the information to law enforcement. (That said, the attacker could use a VPN service to bypass the IP ban and scramble their location.) The company hasn’t spelled out how it’ll use the information to stop the hijackers. But at the very least, it’ll enable Zoom to capture the culprits' IP addresses and blacklist them from the service. “That helps us capture information about what happened in the meeting.” “That report button will be added to the security menu,” Zoom Chief Product Officer Oded Gal said in a webinar (Opens in a new window) with the Anti-Defamation League last week. Now the video conferencing service is working to streamline the process. For weeks now, teenagers and internet trolls have been successfully hijacking Zoom meetings in order to harass unsuspecting users, sometimes with child porn or racist attacks.Ĭurrently, victims have been reporting (Opens in a new window) the incidents to Zoom by tweeting to the company on Twitter, and hoping it notices. The new button is intended to catch those behind “ Zoom-bombing” attacks. “This feature will generate a report which will be sent to the Zoom Trust and Safety team to evaluate any misuse of the platform and block a user if necessary,” according to the company’s release notes (Opens in a new window) for the video service. The video conferencing service is adding a new “report a user to Zoom” button, which is scheduled to roll out on Sunday, April 26 in a software update. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)ĭid your Zoom meeting just get hijacked? Well, you’ll soon be able to report the incident directly to the company. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.
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