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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:27AM (#20686136)
It says it has a wifi chip. So the attack is limited by that distance.

It probably switches on the Keyboard/Mouse Logic as necessary.

But from there you could play an “Open Terminal” and be quite creative. Don’t know if you could send much information back, but I don’t see why it couldn’t have a few gb of flash storage to copy from/to, e.g. occasional screenshots to see what’s there. Or files.

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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by lucianfelix on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:01AM (#20686470)
You could easily use the host computer's internet connection to upload data or to execute commands downloaded from a control server.
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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:23AM (#20686698)
If that was your vector, you wouldn’t bother with wifi at all.

I think the real value of this attack is against air-gapped computers... that people charge their wireless devices with? That would be stupid.

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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by crooked-v on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:12PM (#20687872)
> I think the real value of this attack is against air-gapped computers... that people charge their wireless devices with? That would be stupid.

This is how Stuxnet ruined Iran's nuclear centrifuges.

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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by egdod on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:42AM (#20686284)
Maybe not distance-limited.

> "But the cable can be configured to act as a client to a nearby wireless network. And if that wireless network has an internet connection, the distance basically becomes unlimited." he added.

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