brachiosaurusTIL for at last 15 years US government has been able to implant hardware into USB cables to turn them into hacking devices with wireless capability.
Bad_EngineeringYou can now buy one for yourself online. https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable
JessicaThat is amazing. The x-ray of it is kind of scary, honestly. That little chip could be all it would take to get into an air-gapped machine.
There are a ton of different payloads that can be run on these, for everything from simple keylogging, to root access, to network backdoors. I've only recently gotten into pentesting but with something like this there's no real limit to the damage that could be done with only a few seconds of physical access.
