Security News > 2020 > November > TurkeyBombing Puts New Twist on Zoom Abuse
The Turkey-Day themed email ploy leverages the juggernaut popularity of the Zoom Video Communications platform.
The day after Thanksgiving, Twitter was abuzz with tweets not only about people's various Zoom meetings with family and friends, but also about numerous special events hosted on Zoom to celebrate the holiday.
ZoomBombing became the initial way hackers would break into video conferences, using the ease with which they could access links to Zoom conferences and jump on calls uninvited to disrupt them with pornography, hate speech or even physical threats to users.
Zoom eventually made a tweak to its user interface by removing meeting ID numbers from the title bar of its client interface to mitigate the attacks from threat actors.
Anyone could join a Zoom meeting if they knew the meeting link, which many users would send via social-media channels.