{"id":31716,"date":"2024-02-07T02:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31716"},"modified":"2024-02-11T21:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T02:16:28","slug":"three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31716","title":{"rendered":"Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks \u2014 botnet causes millions of euros in damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e7XpWmHaSJgnpB9be8rxNe-1200-80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"123\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Dental IoT devices caused millions of Euros in damages for Swiss company, says report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/networking\/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages\">Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks \u2014 botnet causes millions of euros in damages<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>don&#8217;t care, I still want a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.colgate.com\/products\/hum-adult-smart-rechargeable-electric-toothbrush\" target=\"_blank\">Colgate Hum<\/a>.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/review\/colgate-hum-smart-toothbrush\/\" target=\"_blank\">WIRED&#8217;s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024-02-11 &#8211; per <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/3-million-hacked-toothbrushes-urban-legend\/?bxid=5dfac0863f92a458a45dfe60&amp;cndid=20773990&amp;esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_&amp;source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_content=WIR_Daily_021024&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_021024&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nl&amp;utm_term=P4\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>, not a true story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Fortinet belatedly sought to correct the record, writing in public statements that \u201cit appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dental IoT devices caused millions of Euros in damages for Swiss company,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[70,854],"class_list":["post-31716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-hacking","tag-teeth","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31776,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31716\/revisions\/31776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}