Did a Hacker Gang Create a Botnet Out of 3 Million Electric Toothbrushes?
The answer is: No, but you’d be forgiven for having believed that was the case since a viral news story made the rounds earlier this week claiming it was so.
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The answer is: No, but you’d be forgiven for having believed that was the case since a viral news story made the rounds earlier this week claiming it was so.
Meanwhile, Google said the court’s decision will have significant ramifications for online crime, adding that it’s observed a 78 percent reduction in the number of hosts infected by Glupteba since its technical and legal attacks on the botnet last year.
“While Glupteba operators have resumed activity on some non-Google platforms and IoT devices, shining a legal spotlight on the group makes it less appealing for other criminal operations to work with them,” reads a blog post from Google’s General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado and vice president of engineering Royal Hansen. “And the steps [Google] took last year to disrupt their operations have already had significant impact.”
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