Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:11:49 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   We were promised flying cars https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages

   • Embed this notice
     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:14:10 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

     in reply to

     • Simon Zerafa

     @simonzerafa but still, botnet toothbrushes, like c’mon

   • Embed this notice
     Simon Zerafa (simonzerafa@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:14:11 JST Simon Zerafa

     in reply to

     @thomasfuchs

     Given how some people drive perhaps it's for the best we don't have flying cars 🤔🤷♂️

   • Embed this notice
     Mike Loukides (mikeloukides@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:16:06 JST Mike Loukides

     in reply to

     @thomasfuchs This is getting ridiculous. Compromised smart toothbrushes? The technology world is more absurd every day.

   • Embed this notice
     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:23:33 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

     in reply to

     • Kevin Beaumont
     • James Gilbert

     @jgrg @GossiTheDog the article he linked says it really happened

   • Embed this notice
     James Gilbert (jgrg@mstdn.science)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:23:34 JST James Gilbert

     in reply to

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @thomasfuchs @GossiTheDog says this story is not true.

   • Embed this notice
     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 08:00:02 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

     in reply to

     • Kevin Beaumont
     • James Gilbert

     @jgrg @GossiTheDog (I’m not saying I believe them, just what it says)

   • Embed this notice
     James Gilbert (jgrg@mstdn.science)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 08:00:03 JST James Gilbert

     in reply to

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @thomasfuchs @GossiTheDog It does. But it doesn't say what make of toothbrush it was, or what the Swiss website that was DDoS'd was. There are toothbrushes that can connect to a smartphone, presumably via Bluetooth, but I don't see how you could make a botnet out of them.