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Here's the link to the actual article instead of someone's social media post that contains a screenshot that contains an unclickable link to the article: https

Here's the link to the actual article instead of someone's social media post that contains a screenshot that contains an unclickable link to the article: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malwar... Disclaimer: Maybe the image is clickable or there's a clickable link in the social media post for most people, but because Mastodon doesn't show posts without javascript enabled I can only ever see whatever shows up in the RSS feed.

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PurpleRamen 3y ago
This is not the original article, it's just an article taking up and spreading the claim. The original article[1] they linked is from a German newspaper in Switzerland, predating the article from tomshardware.com by a whole week. [1] https://archive.ph/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 https://archive.ph/2024.01.30-203406/https://www.luzernerzei...
- autoexec 3y ago
  You are right, it's just the article that was included in the social media post. The German article says it got the information from a report by fortinet. I didn't notice anything about the DDoS attack there, but i did find these: https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/mobileiot-vb.pdf https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/mobileiot... https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/toothbrush.pdf https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/toothbrus...