https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/toothbrush-hack-cyber-attack-botnet-b2492018.html
Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports.
The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in something known as a botnet in order to perform a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which overloads websites and servers with huge amounts of web traffic.
The website of the Swiss firm was knocked offline as a result of the attack, according to local newspaper Aargauer Zeitung
who first reported the incident…
(pun intended)
