A news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral.

A viral internet story would have you believe that cybercriminals have turned to dental products to launder their malicious activity. Reading time 3 minutes Did a hacker gang create a botnet out of 3 ...

Update added below with Fortinet's statement confirming our reporting and a statement from CH Media, who originally reported on the attack. A widely reported story that 3 million electric toothbrushes ...

After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now ...

Here are a few headlines from the last 24 hours or so, about a supposed smart toothbrush botnet launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack: The reports were inspired by a report last week ...

Reminds me of the Y2K insanity, where reporters were panic-filing stories about how everyone's coffee makers were going to stop working on January 1, 2000. Only for more sane people to note that even ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...