It has been reported that three million electric toothbrushes have been hacked and abused for a highly disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, but cybersecurity experts have rushed to question the claims. The Swiss German-language daily newspaper Aargauer Zeitung published an article describing the alleged attack on 30 January 2024. According to a machine translation of the article, cybercriminals installed malware on three million electric toothbrushes and used the compromised
With many countries assisting Turkey and Syria in earthquake response, hackers are in the process of trying to disrupt the communication processes. The Russian hacktivist collective Killnet has carried out a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against NATO, causing temporary disruption to some of the military alliance’s public-facing websites. The Killnet operation had previously said through its closed channel on the encrypted Telegram service that it was initiating attacks
