{"id":44068,"date":"2024-02-08T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=44068"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:23:44","slug":"report-that-3-million-electric-toothbrushes-used-in-ddos-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/report-that-3-million-electric-toothbrushes-used-in-ddos-not-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Report that 3 million electric toothbrushes used in DDoS not true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report claiming that 3 million electric toothbrushes were used in a DDoS attack was debunked as a hypothetical scenario, not a real incident.<\/p>\n<p>This story, initially reported by a Swiss news site and attributed to a Fortinet employee, suggested malware-infected toothbrushes targeted a Swiss company, causing significant downtime and financial loss. However, BleepingComputer&#8217;s investigation found no evidence of such an attack.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative was likely a misunderstanding or miscommunication, highlighting the importance of verifying sensational claims in cybersecurity reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/no-3-million-electric-toothbrushes-were-not-used-in-a-ddos-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BleepingComputer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report claiming that 3 million electric toothbrushes were used in a DDoS attack was debunked as a hypothetical scenario, not a real incident. This story, initially reported by a Swiss news site and attributed to a Fortinet employee, suggested malware-infected toothbrushes targeted a Swiss company, causing significant downtime and financial loss. However, BleepingComputer&#8217;s investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,215],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-44068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44070,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44068\/revisions\/44070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}