"I love staring at girl's asses," says one hijacker in a video.
Other videos involve the culprits crashing online yoga sessions held over Zoom as attendees perform the exercises. In the same videos, the Zoom-bombers tell the participants, "I love alcohol" during an AA session while drawing a picture of Hitler and swastikas during the Narcotics Anonymous meeting. On YouTube, the hijackers have uploaded videos of them infiltrating Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, which shows the faces of participants. And by uploading the footage, the perpetrators are not just exposing victims to further embarrassment on YouTube and TikTok they're infringing on their privacy as well. However, victims of the attacks may not realize they're also being recorded. TikTok users requesting Zoom meetings to 'raid.'Īs a result, a wave of hijacking incidents have been unfolding across the country, exposing users to childish pranks, along with more serious forms of harassment, including racist taunts. On TikTok, we found numerous posts calling on users to share details for upcoming Zoom meetings. In other cases, the hijackers are deliberately requesting people in online chats to post Zoom meeting details for the purposes of "raiding" them. In some cases, the perpetrators are learning about the Zoom sessions because the meeting details are shared on social media. The hijackings are occurring because many users are holding public meetings on Zoom without realizing that anyone -including malicious strangers - can attend the same gatherings. Related: Watch Out for 'Zoom-Bombings' on Online Video-Meeting Apps Why Is This Happening? You can also find similar content on TikTok, which shows shorter clips of various Zoom hijacking incidents that involve berating teachers and disrupting online classes with curse words. Later, YouTube's algorithms began recommending them to us. PCMag easily found the videos on YouTube with the search terms "Zoom Raid" and "Zoom Trolling." The queries resulted in over two dozen videos devoted to Zoom trolling and Zoom-related pranks.
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