I mean we haven’t seen any proof, but Stefan Züger of Fortinet told that story as a supposedly true event to Journalists of CH-Media. The very article Kevin Beaumont posts says that the scenario is a real event.
Fortigate have issued me a statement. The toothbrush DDoS story is completely made up.
First thing I was asking is the model of toothbrush that supposedly got hacked. AFAIK there are no mainstream electric toothbrushes with onboard WiFi. Both OralB and Philips use Bluetooth for their smart functionalities.
If the story was about smart ovens or washing machines I would have believed it.
ring ring “Hello?”
“Is your refrigerator running?”
“Yes.”
“Dear God! Unplug it! Unplug it now before Skynet takes over!”
It was a psi-op to distract you from the horrible reality of the Furby Bot-net that will be the end of life as we know it
I suspect you would enjoy the story of Furbeowulf.
“secure connection failed” accessing that link
Edited with explanation and alternate link.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o
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Don’t forget about botnet of vibrators and chastity cages!
Best news is news you make up! NO ONE ELSE IS COVERING IT
Tomorrow: 3 Million hacked smart fridges were used to spread misinformation that the 3 million toothbrush story wasn’t true.
Buzzfeed: 10 tweets proving your new pizza oven hates The Pentagon
silicon valley irl
I started to become somewhat skeptical after thinking about it for a second. Well, too bad it was fake. Or good, actually.
They say the story isn’t true, but the source they cite in the very next sentence says:
Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen. Es zeigt, wie vielseitig digitale Angriffe geworden sind.
(This example, which sounds like a Hollywood plot, really happened. It shows how multidimensional (my mind blanks on a better translation right now) cyber attacks have become)
Are you a regular reader of the Luzerner Zeitung? What do you think of their other tech reporting?
Thanks for the translation.
Multivector? Multifaceted? Multimodal?
More like ‘diverse’ or ‘versatile’. Although multifaceted would be the literal translation so I guess it works.
