Hackers exploited compromised toothbrushes running Java, turning them into botnets to execute DDoS attacks on an undisclosed Swiss website. A Swiss company’s website was disrupted by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on three million smart toothbrushes, which were infected with malware, reported Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung.  The toothbrushes, running on Java, were turned into an army of malicious botnets, flooding a Swiss company’s website with traffic and forcing it to go offline.

Source: HackRead