Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks 2 years ago
This article is strange & many details are lacking. All the big smart toothbrushes use BLE and are not WiFi-connected. Tried to fact-check the article, but nothing.
A bunch of BLE chips are also WiFi capable, so not ruling out that someone compromised the firmware to enable WiFi functionality, but I wonder how they were able to connect to WiFi to trigger a botnet in the first place.
Quite skeptical of this article, while the premise of the danger of IoT devices still remains, nonetheless.