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The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true. (cyberplace.social)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean we haven't seen any proof, but Stefan Züger of Fortinet told that story as a supposedly true event to Journalists of CH-Media. The very article Kevin Beaumont posts says that the scenario is a real event.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fortigate have issued me a statement. The toothbrush DDoS story is completely made up.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111892646485958733

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What I said was still true according to his even newer followup; Fortinet really told that to the Journalists:

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111895724464138614

I'm really glad Kevin got them to admit it was a fabrication. The way he asserted that it was a made up example first, before having anything concrete to back it up, made him seem unreliable to me at first.