Surprising 3 Million Hacked Toothbrushes Story Goes Viral—Is It True?
Forbes | Feb 7, 2024 | Davey WinderA news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral. However, many in the information security industry, including myself, have trouble finding evidence to support the story.
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Most smart toothbrushes are Bluetooth Low Energy enabled rather than connecting by WiFi, although some do have that capability. However, whether it’s feasible that three million could have been hacked is highly debatable.
I’ll just brush this story off…
Maybe Mental Floss knows.
This could explain why my toothbrush keeps sending me messages. Additionally, I want to say there are enemies in my bathroom wall. Why doe everything smell blue? Spiders! Spiders everywhere! Also, Epstein clearly killed himself.
… to spread the good news of Crest?
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… to never just miss a thing by your ITth?
I bet the toothbrushes are reporting on things it hears and Alexa/Siri miss.
Main stream news putting their veneers over the true story…except in England..there hasn’t been a veneer made yet that can survive treacle taffy..
Little Billy is scolded for spending too much time online…then sent to connect his toothbrush to the Web.