Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Alas, fiction is sometimes stranger than truth. There weren't really 3 million Internet-connected toothbrushes accessing the website of a Swiss company in a DDoS attack that did millions of dollars of damage. The toothbrush botnet was just a hypothetical example that some journalists wrongly interpreted as having actually happened.

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#ArsTechnica #ToothBrush #DDoS #Journalism #WheresStanleyBTW

Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Journalists reported on hypothetical toothbrush botnet as if it were real.

Too good to be true, kind of a relief.
#DDOS #cybersecurity #false
Bleeping Computer - No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack

Three million #malware - infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss #DDoS attacks — #botnet causes millions of euros in damages

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages

#security #iot #internet #problem #software #attack #toothbrush #news #cybercrime

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.

Something I didn't have on my #enshitification bingo card

Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss #DDoS attacks — #botnet causes millions of euros in damages

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages

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.

#letssavethefediverse These #ddos are getting old

DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks of unthinkable size

Basically, "middleboxes" used for censorship are being used for DDoSing.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/unending-data-floods-and-complete-resource-exhaustion-ddoses-get-meaner/

These servers—known as middleboxes—are deployed by nation-states such as China to censor restricted content and by large organizations to block sites pushing porn, gambling, and pirated downloads. The servers fail to follow transmission control protocol specifications that require a three-way handshake—comprising an SYN packet sent by the client, an SYN+ACK response from the server, followed by a confirmation ACK packet from the client—before a connection is established.

#internet #ddos #middlebox #censorship #site-blocking #tcp #networks #sites #websites

DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks of unthinkable size

100,000 misconfigured servers are creating a new way to knock sites offline.

Russia MUST BE STOPPED! Help Ukraine WIN!

The "official" news in the Russian Federation is mostly fake and we believe it is better to shut them down and let people switch to trustful news.

Please, just open this page and let it be open on your devices. It will flood the Russian propaganda websites and pose a huge load on their infrastructure.

Your browser will be slow. It's ok, don't worry and keep it run. ...

An interesting response to disinformation and propaganda by Ukrain's supporters.

https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/

#Ukraine #Russia #Propaganda #DDoS

#techrights seems to be under #ddos attacks. Why now, I wonder...

This Week in Security: Somebody’s Watching, Microsoft + Linux, DDoS

#hackadaycolumns #news #securityhacks #ddos #omigod #thisweekinsecurity #hackaday
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This Week In Security: Somebody’s Watching, Microsoft + Linux, DDoS

In case you needed yet another example of why your IoT devices shouldn’t be exposed to the internet, a large swath of Hikvision IP Cameras have a serious RCE vulnerability. CVE-2021-36260 was…

#ddos attacks on #techrights :/

#DDoS attacks target the #Philippine human rights alliance #Karapatan

Source: http://en.hackdig.com/08/204871.htm

#humanRights #politics #internet #problem #cyberwarfare #news

Hundreds of thousands of #Realtek -based devices under #attack from #IoT #botnet

Source: https://therecord.media/hundreds-of-thousands-of-realtek-based-devices-under-attack-from-iot-botnet/

Owners of such devices should look or inquire their sellers for new #firmware patches.

#router #wifi #network #internet #update #security #ddos #news #warning

Hundreds of thousands of Realtek-based devices under attack from IoT botnet

A dangerous vulnerability in Realtek chipsets used in hundreds of thousands of smart devices from at least 65 vendors is currently under attack from a notorious DDoS botnet gang.

Attaque en DDoS

Ça faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas subi d'attaque en DDoS. C'est son caractère relativement "doux" qui m'aura un peu intrigué !

#Iptables #Apache #Pare-feu #DDoS #Sécurité #Attaque

Attaque en DDoS

Ça faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas subi d'attaque en DDoS. C'est son caractère relativement "doux" qui m'aura un peu intrigué !

#ddos attack on #techrights and I can only guess what triggers that

#ddos attacks again :/ over 50 reqs/sec, on average...

Why #Tuxmachines Refuses Connections Sometimes http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/153499 #www #internet #security #ddos