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How to tell if a USB cable is hiding malicious hacker hardware

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Are your USB cables sending your data to hackers?
"...What Lumafield discovered is interesting to say the least. A 2D X-ray image could identify the cable's antenna and microcontroller, but only the 3D CT scan could reveal another band of wires connected to a die stacked on top of the cable's microcontroller. You can explore a 3D model of the scan yourself on Lumafield's website...."

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2...dware.html
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02-20-2025 at 07:56 PM.
02-20-2025 at 07:56 PM.
So all we need is access to tens of thousands of dollars of equipment
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