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No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11706956

No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack::A widely reported story that 3 million electric toothbrushes were hacked with malware to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is likely a hypothetical scenario instead of an actual attack.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Stupid people fell for this. Absolutely stupid.