Industrial CT scanner manufacturer Lumafield imaged an O.MG USB-C cable revealing sophisticated electronic components secreted within the connector.
The headline is clickbait I think. The whole point of the O.MG cable is to hide electronics in the connector. It’s advertised as a hacking tool. The analysis of what can be seen in there may be interesting, but it’s not like this is secret knowledge.
So the manufacturer isn’t spying on you, it just designed a product so someone else could hack you instead? That doesn’t make it sound any better.
The end result is the same: be careful what cables you plug into your device.
The end result is the same: be careful what cables you plug into your device.
Sure, but this is clickbait at best. It’s not a revelation that this cable contains that hardware.
Its designed to be used for pen testers so they don’t have to spend $20,000 on the alternative cable. Its a single cable thats costs like $200, so im not really worried many people are going to get hacked because they accidentally bought a $200 cable.
