![]() ( Apple offers advice on how to spot counterfeit or uncertified Lightning cables.)īuying a Lightning cable directly from Apple is the safest thing to do. However, be aware that unscrupulous accessory makers will sometimes simply stamp the MFi logo on their packaging without actually submitting their product to be certified. When you buy a Lighting cable, it’s important to make sure the MFi logo is on the package. Seemingly no data will be off-limits-emails, photos, medical records, you name it-to the attacker for victims who plug one of these cables into their computer thinking they are charging their iPhone. (“Red Team” hacking refers to a company hiring security experts to do all they can to break into its systems, thereby exposing vulnerabilities.) And these are just the features that have been revealed so far. The cable is built with Red Teams in mind with features like additional boot payloads, no USB enumeration until payload execution, and the ability to forensically erase the firmware, which causes the cable to fall entirely back to an innocuous state. The O.MG Cable allows new payloads to be created, saved, and transmitted entirely remotely. ![]() As soon as the cable is plugged in, it can be controlled through the wireless network interface that lives inside the cable. The O.MG Cable™ is the result of months of work that has resulted in a highly covert malicious USB cable. The site’s description should send shivers through everyone in the privacy and security industries: The cable is currently listed on the Hak5 hacking website, where potential customers can sign up to be notified when it’s available for purchase, with no price yet announced. Now time for a fully destructive teardown to make sure they meet all my requirements for a fully field-ready piece of attack hardware. But now MG says that he’s found a way to mass-produce the cable in a factory, which will allow thousands of them to roll off an assembly line.Īfter months of work, I am now holding the very first fully manufactured #OMGCable. The good news at the time was that the O.MG cable needed to be handmade and was relatively expensive-$200 a pop. (Using the cable to charge your iPhone by plugging it into the wall should theoretically be safe, since it’s your Mac or PC that’s vulnerable to attack.) After MG demoed the prototype cable to Motherboard’s Cox, he told the reporter, “It’s like being able to sit at the keyboard and mouse of the victim but without actually being there.” He also said that the cable supports both hackers who are within Wi-Fi range and ones who might be tapping into its connection over the internet. This allows attackers to remotely run commands on the Mac or Windows PC the cable is plugged into, which allows them to do, well, pretty much whatever they want-including reading or even deleting your data. However, the O.MG Cable also contains a built-in wireless hotspot. The O.MG Cable looks like an ordinary Apple-made Lightning cable and works exactly the same-it will charge a device and transfer data to and from the device just like an authentic Lightning cable. The O.MG Cable was first reported by Motherboard’s Joseph Cox when the security researcher who created it, a person known as “MG,” first demoed his handmade prototype at the Def Con hacking conference last summer. The dangerous O.MG cable is “coming soon” from the Hak5 site. It’s being mass-produced in factories so anyone can buy and use them to target your data. Worse, this hacked Lightning cable, called the O.MG Cable, isn’t a bespoke one-off. That’s because a hacker has created the first Lightning cable that, when plugged into your Mac or PC, will allow someone to remotely take over your computer. ![]() You’re sure to run into someone asking if they have a spare Lightning cable they can use for a moment.īut from now on, asking a stranger to borrow a Lightning cable, or accepting an offer by a stranger to give you one, is the last thing you’ll want to do if you’re scrupulous about protecting your data. This is never more evident than at an airport or a major conference. Many times we also forget our cables at home, leading us to ask a friend-or even a stranger-if we can borrow one to revive a dead phone. But even though every Apple gadget that requires a Lightning cable comes with one, many of us lose them, replace them, or buy extras.
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