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Three Million Toothbrushes Run Java-Based Malware
it is a bit too perfect though and there are no details, which is suspicious.
„Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen.“ uhuh (https://archive.ph/yzAg7)
like why would a toothbrush have a direct wi-fi connection rather than pairing to a phone, how can they infect such a large number considering very few are likely to not be behind a nat, and most of all, how is the use of java relevant, that should make attacks harder
three million wi-fi java toothbrushes is such an absurd example that either the poor swiss journalist misunderstood or the swiss it expert was bullshitting
https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/1755486688996917670
@0xabad1dea is there like a toot i should be linking to,,
@hikari I wonder if it was "3 million IoT, among those were 2000 toothbrushes". But really, if computer gamepads and wireless mouses often use WiFi for sync, I don't see why toothbrushes would not. As for why you, as a manufacturer, would want to use WiFi over Bluetooth, the benefits are pretty clear, you can collect so much more usage data!
@nina_kali_nina @hikari I've only heard of one gamepad using WiFi (Stadia's, for latency reasons since it was meant for cloud streaming) and never of any mice.
@jernej__s @hikari okay, I was wrong to say "often", correct word would be "occasionally". I just happened to have a mouse using WiFi some time ago, so I thought they were more common. WiFi Direct mouses, keyboards and gamepads used to be very much a thing, but somehow I can't google anything (maybe because google turned to shit).
@nina_kali_nina @hikari If you do remember what it was (or find it again), I'd be very interested, because a WiFi-connected mouse sounds like a wonderfully cursed thing to have.
@jernej__s @hikari HP WiFi mouse it was! Easy pairing with Android, too...