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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even the lowly toothbrush might not be safe from internet hackers. A now-debunked report said that a sophisticated cyberattack, leveraging 3 million compromised smart toothbrushes, caused widespread ...

No one could have ever imagined they would read a headline like this, yet here we are. Apparently, smart toothbrushes are becoming the latest recruits in the arsenal of cybercriminals. About 3 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

WTF?! Another incident illustrates the inherent dangers of making every household item internet-connected. Three million smart toothbrushes were reportedly infected by hackers and enslaved into a ...