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That electric toothbrush DDoS story you saw might have been a case of mistranslation

The plausibility of claims originating from an interview in a Swiss newspaper have been called into question

Reports in English media stemming from an article in Aargauer Zeitung last week seemed to indicate that Fortinet's director of systems engineering, Stefan Züger, had claimed millions of internet-connected toothbrushes had been used to carry out an attack against a Swiss company. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont was among the first to question the accuracy of the story, calling out news outlets that covered the report as well as threat intel firms. Ferguson noted that, based on reading the original coverage, the situation referenced by Züger was meant “simply as an example of what could happen” rather than offering insight into a tangible, real world scenario.

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