It sounds more like science fiction than reality, but Swiss newspaperAargauer Zeitungreported that approximately three million smart toothbrushes were hijacked by hackers to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. These innocuous bathroom gadgets -- transformed into soldiers in a botnet army -- allegedly knocked out a Swiss company for several hours, costing millions of euros in damages.Or, did they? Sources, such as Bleeping Computerand Bleeping Media, found it hard to credit this toothsome tale. And now the security companyFortinet, which helped give the original story credence, is admitting that mistakes were made.In a note to ZDNET, a Fortinet representative said, "To clarify, the topic of toothbrushes being used for DDoS attacks was presented during an interview as an illustration of a given type of attack, and it is not based on research from Fortinet or FortiGuard Labs. It appears ... the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical an...
