Crash for all Usb Devices..... 😱😱😱😱
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The “USB Killer” device was created by a do-it-yourself hardware enthusiast who described his project, complete with pictures and technical details, on a Russian blogging platform in February. An English-language version was earlier this week.
“The combination of high voltage and high current is enough to defeat the small TVS diodes on the bus lines and successfully fry some sensitive components—and often the CPU,” hardware hacking site Hackaday reports. “USB is typically integrated with the CPU in most modern laptops, which makes this attack very effective.”
The creator of USB Killer, who uses the online alias Dark Purple, claims to work for a company that manufactures electronics and said that he ordered the custom printed circuit board and other components he needed for the project from China.
He allegedly got the idea to create the destructive device after hearing a story about a guy who stole a USB flash drive from someone’s backpack on the subway and it fried his laptop when he plugged it in.
Security researchers have long warned about the security risks of inserting other people’s USB drives into your PC, and even those from people you do trust. However if the threat of malware infections doesn’t scare you enough to stop doing this, the possibility of electrical damage might.
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