Bomber mirrored an attendees video

[bbar2002]

We had a zoom bomber who logged in using another attendees name (easy enough) but they somehow managed to mirror the attendees video so it looked like we had 2 windows for 1 person.  How are they doing that?  More importantly, how can we stop it?  The bomber proceeded to send racist hate speech to the hosts as this mirror of someone who was actually one of the hosts.

[ZoomTestKitchen · Accepted solution]

Capturing an attendees video from a Zoom meeting is pretty easy, as well. One could just PIN the video they wish to capture to their 2nd monitor, capture it with OBS, vMix, etc and then designate the OBS, vMix output as the camera into Zoom.

Unfortunately, we can't just stop bad behavior, and tougher than that in your case is bad behavior from somebody who is tech savvy.

Here are a few items that can help, a lot...

1. A Waiting Room that never gets turned-off.
2. A Waiting Room bouncer who manages it through-out the meeting. They message those in the waiting room requiring them to provide a First and Last name. They compare that against the existing attendees in the meeting looking for duplicates.
3. Meeting registration requirement
4. Zoom Authentication requirement
5. Do not allow attendees to unmute. Instead, require the use of raising the digital hand, then have the host/co-host Request to Unmute when they wish to ask a question.
6. Use Focus Mode to remove everybody's video from everybody else, except those that are spotlighted by the host.
7. I'd highly suggest getting very comfortable with quickly removing a bad apple from your meeting.
   1. Report them to the Zoom Trust & Safety
   2. Enable "Do Not Allow Removed Attendees to Log Back In"
8. There are many other best practices. I'm including a link to a great list of best practices.
   1. https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Securing%20Your%20Zoom%20Meetings.pdf
9. It's about impossible to stop all bad behavior, but there are a lot of options that let you get pretty darn close.
10. I find that many of the meetings that get Zoom Bombed have been configured for the convenience of the attendees, the host didn't want to burden them with a couple of extra steps. Unfortunately, a meeting that is convenient and easy to get into for the intended attendees, is a meeting that is a perfect target for someone who wishes to cause issues, and just for fun, nothing else.

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[SN3]

We have all these settings in place with a team of 10 people daily watching and they now are taking over the settings and the screens. Zoom needs to do better

[SN3]

Zoom needs to do better. once you added all these extra apps they are finding a back door in and taking over the settings listed above. 

[blk]

just got hit where the bomber captures all the videos and is so fast that you can not stop them - and then duplicating others videos at same time - very sophisticated - zoom please = that sophistication. from this reading its been going on now a year and where's the solution other than waiting room your meeting. 

[SN3]

Zoom is complicit in this and knows that the additional apps they added makes them vulnerable but wont fix it. I heard one company is putting together a law suit against them.