The O․MG Elite cable is a scarily stealthy hacker tool – Is that phone charger doing more than you think it is?

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It’s just an ordinary, unremarkable USB cable — or that’s what a hacker would want you to think.

“It’s a cable that looks identical to the other cables you already have,” explains MG, the cable’s creator. “But inside each cable, I put an implant that’s got a web server, USB communications, and Wi-Fi access. So it plugs in, powers up, and you can connect to it.”

That means this ordinary-looking cable is, in fact, designed to snoop on the data that passes through it and send commands to whatever phone or computer it’s connected to. And yes, there’s a Wi-Fi access point built into the cable itself. That feature existed in the original cable, but the newest version comes with expanded network capabilities that make it capable of bidirectional communications over the internet — listening for incoming commands from a control server and sending data from whatever device it’s connected to back to the attacker.

With a choice of connections from Lightning, USB-A, and USB-C, it can be adapted for almost any target device including Windows, macOS, iPhone, and Android, so it’s suitable for many different environments.

See https://www.theverge.com/23321517/omg-elite-cable-hacker-tool-review-defcon

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source https://gadgeteer.co.za/the-o%e2%80%a4mg-elite-cable-is-a-scarily-stealthy-hacker-tool-is-that-phone-charger-doing-more-than-you-think-it-is/