catfish ( @catfish@lemmy.ml ) 42•4 months agoPerhaps worth pointing out that the attacks require the attacker to position a piece of hardware between the Qi charger and the power source.
M500 ( @M500@lemmy.ml ) English11•4 months agoTalk about a burner phone 😎☀️ Aaaaaeeeoooowwww
DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English7•4 months agoIf feel this is (unintentionally) stretching the use of the word cyberattack. Rightly or wrongly, most people consider a cyberattack a form of hacking/attack that’s executed via a network or the internet.
I know its true definition any form of attack against data, network, or computing device (including smartphones), but this headline could easily lead people to think their phones could be set on fire by some anonymous l337 hAx0r over the internet.
While technically true, it requires physical exploit first.
Anyway it isn’t a good idea to use a cheap charger with unknown brand, or one which isn’t the own one at home.
Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English5•4 months agoA charger can be manipulated to control voice assistants via inaudible voice commands…
This seems like the scarier attack, to be honest…
Though, surely there’s filtering that can be performed to prevent that as an attack vector
Joe Breuer ( @jmbreuer@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months agoSo… Considering necessary access, it’s a quarter step above “cooking a phone in a microwave oven might catch it on fire”, IMO.
moosetwin ( @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•4 months agothis is unrelated but that is a really nice diagram
firefly ( @firefly@neon.nightbulb.net ) 1•4 months agoLet’s pray they don’t find a way to detonate the batteries!
As in older iPhones? Without the need of an malicious charger
Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 4•4 months agoAlso Samsung Note 7 was da bomb!
It is the result of, to make the phone thinner, putting a battery that is too thin for the necessary power and therefore it gets too hot. It happens when the design is governed by the commercial demands of managers rather than those of technicians.