A bunch of BLE chips are also WiFi capable, so not ruling out that someone compromised the firmware to enable WiFi functionality, but I wonder how they were able to connect to WiFi to trigger a botnet in the first place.
Quite skeptical of this article, while the premise of the danger of IoT devices still remains, nonetheless.
I know java me was a thing and there are micro jvm that can run on microcontrollers but still, it does not add up.
I think a DDoS attack happened (happens all the time) and security "experts" mentioned that these things could come from anywhere, even toothbrush, and the details got lost in translation / used for click bait.
The ESP32 is now used as a general-purposed chip even in applications where an 8-bit MCU would have been enough. A remotely exploitable vulnerability in the ESP32/SDK could have large-scale consequences.
This does seem to be a debunked story though.
I don't see a mention of "NoName Ddosia".
"Jüngst wurden damit auch Server von Schweizer Regierungsstellen während des Weltwirtschaftsforums angegriffen – als Retourkutsche für die Teilnahme des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodimir Selenski. Eine russlandnahe Gruppierung bekannte sich zum Angriff."
(translation: "Servers of Swiss government offices were recently attacked during the World Economic Forum - as a retaliation for the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A group close to Russia claimed responsibility for the attack.")
Background: https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/en/home/aktuell/im-fokus/2023...
But it's not clear to me that's right, isn't WEF in the summer?
Ah, they've been ongoing, here's the earlier one: https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/en/home/aktuell/im-fokus/2023...
> The example that comes like a Hollywood scenario has really happened that way.
> This example, which seems like a Hollywood scenario, actually happened.
https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111892744775689047
"It appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred"
It's not Dutch, it's German, so trying to translate it as if it were Dutch would give strange results (although Google Translate tried to do it anyway, and came fairly close, due to the languages being somewhat related).
The original sentence: "Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen."
Translating from German, Google Translate gave me:
"This example, which seems like a Hollywood scenario, actually happened."
Translating, as if it were Dutch, Google Translate gave me:
"The play, the one who comes to a Hollywood theater, is such a work in itself."
Anecdote: One of my coworkers once thought that Dutch means German. I guess it was because the words "dutch" and "deutsch" look so similar.
That said, the Dutch language is among the Germanic languages, and is closely-related to German itself (similarly, the Dutch-derived Afrikaans, with which Dutch is largely mutually intelligible). To someone reasonably fluent in German, Dutch looks like a somewhat garbled variant. Similarly Danish, though the spoken form varies considerably from the orthography, and Norwegian, also closely related. Contemporary German shares many words and a fair bit of grammar with English as well, making blingualism in both relatively easy, compared with, say, more distant languages such as English-Arabic or English-Mandarin.
Regardless, the translation is close enough to yours (albeit grammatically awkward).
Wardriving for oral health?