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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.
@rysiek@mstdn.social@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.
@rysiek @GossiTheDog While we're at it... can we start curbing the toothbrush-shaped routers that are Mikrotik and their UDP based speedtests, please... :-| Those are like... 10g "unsolicited inbound UDP"-as-a-Service. -.-'
@rysiek Again: is it really fake? The given article states something different: https://social.tchncs.de/@jesterchen/111886824793344385
@jesterchen seems at least sus. One source, not other confirmation.