Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 09:48:45 JST BrianKrebs

   in reply to

   • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

   @gsuberland I looked at this story and thought, 3 million toothbruth botnet! Wow. But the source research can't be viewed unless you subscribe to something. Hrm. Likelihood of some toothbrushes being owned bc shitty app or whatever is not nothing, but a 3M strong botnet is going to get noticed by a lot of places. I assigned this a "probably wildly untrue" label and promptly forgot about it.

   • Embed this notice
     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 09:48:47 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     this toothbrush DDoS thing shows just how easy it is to get a dozen well-regarded news outlets to post a completely false story, as long as it sounds vaguely plausible and compelling. you only have to convince one reporter to write something and the rest will rush to write a story based on the content of the first article.