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The newspaper Aargauer Zeitung published an article claiming that three million IoT-connected toothbrushes had launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against a Swiss company, causing its ...

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 ...

Keysight Technologies KEYS announced that Fortinet opted for their APS-M8400 network cybersecurity test platform to assess the efficiency and reliability of its FortiGate 4800F next-generation ...

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 Mirai-based DDoS (distributed denial of service) malware botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new payloads to target Linux-based routers and routers from D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, TOTOLINK, and ...

Tom’s Hardware has confirmed that the Smart Toothbrush attack was actually just a hypothetical situation. Fortinet the security firm behind this hypothetical attack acquired the following statement ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) botnets have been used to actively exploit a critical vulnerability found in Zyxel firewall models. The flaw, identified by Fortinet security researchers as ...

UPDATE: Turns out the following story was just a hypothetical situation and not real, an error in translation. "To clarify, the topic of toothbrushes being used for ...

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...