These are 9 character meeting ID’s and, when a user navigates to it, it will present them options to join the conference. If you take any Zoom meeting out of a calendar, they all have the same “prefix” and are appended with a number being the Meeting ID for said meeting. We’ll start with what the media has been dubbing as “Zoom Bombing” amongst other silly names. Other infosec aficionados may have titled this “Conference Bombing for Fun and Profit” which could make some sense here 🙂. Now let’s take a journey and explore not just Zoom but ALL of the video conferencing applications out there for some fun. What people don’t realize is that the problem is not a Zoom issue, it’s an Meeting ID issue and more importantly a user issue. I’m not going to go in depth here because these has been beaten to death by the media and I’m assuming if you made it this far you know how to use google and find those articles that have been reposted by every “information security professional” in existence. Users have been flocking to alternative video conferencing solutions such as Microsoft Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, amongst others. Zoom has been under the gun in recent weeks due to “cyberattacks” such as “zoom bombing”.

What is zoom bombing attack