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Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages
Dental IoT devices caused millions of Euros in damages for Swiss company, says report.
Tom's Hardware
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.

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pulpwrit3r

This....this is why you do not need to connect EVERYTHING to the internet.

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omgsweetunlikelycollector-me

I'm comfused- how much damage could an enslaved toothbrush cause??

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ralfmaximus

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.

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meteormemoirs

A DDDS, or Dental Distributed Denial of Service, if you will

#the future is here and i don't like it#technology
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literalite

mentally im friends with a lot of u guys even if we dont talk or never have talked and probably will never talk directly. its ok. the warriors bond transcends words

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