You probably know better than to plug a USB flash drive from an unknown source into your computer. It could infect your machine with malicious code. But would you think twice about a cord? You should.
Kevin Mitnick hands me an iPhone charging cable. Like a magician, he asks me to inspect it. It looks kosher. He plugs it into a laptop. Then he picks up a different computer and commandeers the laptop, including its web camera.
Unlike a magician, he shows me how he did it. The USB end of the cable has been retrofitted with a tiny hardware implant. With a Bluetooth transmitter in his hand, he injected keystrokes into the “victim’s” computer, which downloaded and installed malware from the internet.
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