Alexander Martin reports: A number of French government agencies have been hit by “intense” cyberattacks, the prime minister’s office announced on Monday. The nature of the attacks, which began on Sunday night, has not been confirmed although the description is consistent with distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The French government said the attack was “conducted using familiar…
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Millions of hacked toothbrushes used in Swiss cyber attack (1)
Andy Cuthbertson reports: Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports. The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in something known as a botnet in order to perform a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which overloads websites and servers with…