Kevin BeaumontFeb 6, 2024

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.

Show threadK. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁Feb 6, 2024
@GossiTheDog I mean, it does sound a bit unlikely because I've seen bluetooth brushes, but certainly not ones with builtin wifi.
Show threadRogersFeb 6, 2024
@monsieuricon @GossiTheDog And even if some toothbrushes had wifi, I guess very few would have them directly exposed to the internet so they could be hacked.
Show threadHoward Chu @ SymasFeb 7, 2024
@rogers @monsieuricon @GossiTheDog the toothbrushes wouldn't need to be hackable from the internet. They need only be on the same LAN as a previously infected Windows PC, for example.
Show threadRogers
@hyc @monsieuricon @GossiTheDog Yes. But then it would take some time to get the number up to three million hacked devices without anyone noticing.
Feb 7, 2024 at 5:56amWeb