"Toothbrushes Are a Cybersecurity Risk, Too: Millions Participate in DDoS Attacks"

Cybercriminals have expanded their botnet capabilities with about 3 million malware-infected smart toothbrushes. According to the Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung, remotely controlled toothbrushes were pulled into a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to access and disrupt a website belonging to a company in Switzerland. The threat actors behind the attack used flaws in the Java programming language to infect the smart toothbrushes. Then they used a single command to direct their requests to the server of interest. This article continues to discuss cybercriminals' use of about 3 million smart toothbrushes to expand their botnet capabilities.

Cybernews reports "Toothbrushes Are a Cybersecurity Risk, Too: Millions Participate in DDoS Attacks"

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