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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.
Now NoName have picked up the fake toothbrush story as propaganda for their members.
Good job, Fortigate.
Fortigate haven’t replied to my PR question about it. Given this is several times the size of the world’s biggest botnet, you’d think they’d have any evidence.. at all.
Kudos to @BleepingComputer for doing actual journalism.
Fortinet also declined to comment to me.
It's a completely made up story, which is now being circulated as Russian propaganda.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-unlikely-3-million-electric-toothbrush-ddos-attack/
Fortigate have issued me a statement. The toothbrush DDoS story is completely made up.
I’d like to thank all the Mastodon reply guys in the thread who decided the story was real, btw, based on vibes.
@GossiTheDog can you comment on the “$25M transferred because of deepfake” story from earlier this week? Because that just screams out as being bullshit.