"HAHAHAHA," crowed one user in a screenshot. One screenshot revealed a chat stream: I saw the conversation the trolls were having with each other during the attack. Then I enlarged the screenshots and found a bunch of puzzle pieces I could put together. For just a second, before the porn appeared, some kind of dashboard that the bombers were using was visible. It was whack-a-mole – everytime my friends closed a window, an identical one immediately popped up.īut in between there was something else on the screen. In my Zoom meeting, I watched my friends repeatedly close the windows of porn videos that the trolls kept slinging on our screen with evident glee. Or at least I saw a tiny blip that led me to them. If only I could see them.Īnd then, I did. They don't use real names on Zoom, obviously. "Probably a bunch of kids," is a common conjecture, but I was intrigued - and I wondered how to unmask the people harassing so many with apparently no repercussions. Throughout the raids, one question has popped up along with the mysterious guests: Who are the Zoombombers? The video conferencing company has apologized and guided public meetings toward user controls to prevent intrusions, but the widespread adoption of the platform to beyond 200 million daily users has outpaced the security measures. Zoombombers have disrupted an election in Wisconsin, a PhD candidate defending his doctoral dissertation in Los Angeles, church services in Massachusetts, AA meetings in New York, and classes around the world. More racial taunts, yelling, and chaos overwhelmed the meeting.īy now you have probably heard of Zoombombing, one of the great fads of the COVID-19 shutdown, along with "Tiger King" and pajama pants. "You're all a bunch of n-!" Then the screen was taken over by disturbing porn of people being harmed. "Bunch of n-" one of the intruders said, using a racist epithet. I was laughing with a bunch of friends in a Zoom video conference about the ornate wallpaper in one of our kitchens when a bunch of strangers popped in.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.A little sleuthing led me to the forums where the bombers organized, and by piecing together various online clues, I was able to do something victims of Zoombombing have dreamed about: I found out who the ringleader was.But I still wanted to understand what kind of people were organizing these attacks.I contacted Zoom and other services used in the incident, and they banished the attackers.Then I noticed a strange blip on the screen during the attacks, and took screenshots that revealed clues about who was behind the attack.
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