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.
@GossiTheDog oh man I fell for it. Thanks for the fact check.
Interesting though how easily lots of people got fooled on this one. One part of this is how gullible we all are (well, not you I guess), but the other part I think is that we came to *expect* this kind of stuff to happen in a world saturated with IoT devices.
@[email protected] But the article states: "Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen." which tanslates to "this hollywood-like scenario really happened." 🤔
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