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Most iPhone owners will have borrowed a friend’s cable to charge up their device.
But inserting another person’s cable inside your port could soon become very risky indeed.
A tech security entrepreneur has designed a ‘malicious’ cable which looks like an official Apple product.
Plug this piece of ‘attack hardware’ into your computer, however, and it will let hackers rifle through the sensitive data stored on the machine.
It’s called the O.MG cable and is designed to look just like an official Apple product which can be handed to an unsuspecting victim.
After months of work, I am now holding the very first fully manufactured #OMGCable. I can’t wait to get these up on https://t.co/mVYIMD3v7g
Now time for a fully destructive teardown to make sure they meet all my requirements for a fully field-ready piece of attack hardware. pic.twitter.com/lMVBv5RRjw
— _MG_ (@_MG_) September 29, 2019
Once plugged into a computer, it opens up a wireless hotspot which will let attackers access their target’s computer.
The cable’s firmware (computer code) can then be erased remotely by any hi-tech heavy breather wishing to cover their tracks.
Luckily, this woe-fi hacking device will cost $200 so is probably not going to find its way into the hands of ordinary punters.
MG, the name of its designer, wrote: ‘The O.MG Cable is the result of months of work that has resulted in a highly covert malicious USB cable.
‘As soon as the cable is plugged in, it can be controlled through the wireless network interface that lives inside the cable.’
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