Tooth be told: Toothbrush DDoS attack claim was lost in translation, says Fortinet

After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now issued a statement.

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