On April 8, Madison, Connecticut, became the first-and, as of this writing, only-U.S. Brady and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott W. Pennsylvania followed on April 7, with a joint warning issued by U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan issued a press release warning of possible state and federal charges for Zoom-bombing.
In recent weeks, many federal and state prosecutors have responded to reports of these disruptions by threatening to impose criminal charges and fines on would-be “Zoom-bombers.” On April 3, the U.S. Intruders have exploited unprecedented public dependence on videoconference meetings to transmit hateful messages and ideologies, often targeting meetings based on the identities of their participants. This “weaponization of Zoom,” as the New York Times recently described it, has seen harassers using both mainstream and fringe platforms to share meeting passwords and synchronize disruption efforts. While some Zoom-bombing incidents are run-of-the-mill “trolling,” others represent a new, virulent form of cyber harassment. A compound drawing on the name of San Jose-based platform Zoom, the term is colloquially applied to disruption carried out across videoconference platforms. Zoom-bombing, or video-teleconference hijacking, refers to the uninvited entry into and disruption of a videoconference call, often by means of obscene, hateful, or threatening language or images. As the novel coronavirus has prompted everyday activity to move online and demand for videoconference platforms to soar, reports of a new form of cyber disruption-“Zoom-bombing”-have grown increasingly commonplace.
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