Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages
According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets.
The most cyberpunk thing on your dash today.
This….this is why you do not need to connect EVERYTHING to the internet.
I’m comfused- how much damage could an enslaved toothbrush cause??
The aggressors installed remote control software onto the smart toothbrushes via their unprotected internet connections, aggregating 3 million of them into a botnet: a network of robot computers under remote control.
Next, they would instruct all 3 million of them to attack a website of their choosing, causing a distributed-denial-of-service (DDS) situation where the targeted website was so busy talking to hijacked toothbrushes that it couldn’t do the work it was designed for, resulting in crashes and lost revenue.
A DDDS, or Dental Distributed Denial of Service, if you will
In the 80s they just put a clock in a pen and called it a day.