Altérer le firmware des chargeurs rapides pour griller les composants des appareils qu'ils rechargent… voire carrément les faire s'enflammer. C'est ce que peut permettre un nouveau type d'attaque découvert par des chercheurs en sécurité rattachés au géant chinois Tencent.
#BadPower ou un risque potentiel d' #incendie exploitable sur les #chargeurs rapides ! (il suffira d'une étincelle...)
New #hack Can Trick Power Bricks into Starting Fires
https://gizmodo.com/new-hack-can-trick-power-bricks-into-starting-fires-1844441247
#BadPower hack works by manipulating the firmware inside fast charge power adapters
by hacking the fast charging firmware built into a power adapter, Xuanwu Labs demonstrated that bad actors could potentially manipulate the power brick into sending more electricity than a phone can handle, thereby overheating the #phone, melting internal components, or as Xuanwu Labs discovered, setting the device on fire.
Your phone’s power brick is typically a relatively innocuous piece of tech, but recently, researchers at a Chinese security firm discovered a way to hack a fast charge power adapter so that when connected to a phone, the power brick can melt the phone or even start a fire.
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