Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
cyberplace.social
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.
  • ThetaDev@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    First thing I was asking is the model of toothbrush that supposedly got hacked. AFAIK there are no mainstream electric toothbrushes with onboard WiFi. Both OralB and Philips use Bluetooth for their smart functionalities.

    If the story was about smart ovens or washing machines I would have believed it.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      ring ring “Hello?”

      “Is your refrigerator running?”

      “Yes.”

      “Dear God! Unplug it! Unplug it now before Skynet takes over!”

  • rynzcycle@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Tomorrow: 3 Million hacked smart fridges were used to spread misinformation that the 3 million toothbrush story wasn’t true.

  • Yer Ma@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It was a psi-op to distract you from the horrible reality of the Furby Bot-net that will be the end of life as we know it

  • Kazumara@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I mean we haven’t seen any proof, but Stefan Züger of Fortinet told that story as a supposedly true event to Journalists of CH-Media. The very article Kevin Beaumont posts says that the scenario is a real event.