The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.

Here’s the original source of the story: https://archive.is/2024.01.30-203406/https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/kriminalitaet-die-zahnbuersten-greifen-an-das-sind-die-aktuellen-cybergefahren-und-so-koennen-sie-sich-schuetzen-ld.2569480

It’s simply a made up example. It doesn’t exist. It starts talking about NoName Ddosia, too, which also isn’t toothbrushes.

The toothbrush thing has gone viral despite it being total bollocks.

@GossiTheDog OH NO! I thought it was so funny. Oh well.

"Sir, we've been hacked!"

"Who? The Russians? The Chinese? Aliens?"

"Three million toothbrushes."