A company from Hong Kong sells a USB called USB Kill 2.0. As you might have guessed from its name, it's not a regular USB. The device can burn any connected computer with a surge of electricity through the USB port.
Last year, a device called USB Killer and developed by a Russian hacker με το όνομα Dark Purple έκανε πάταγο online because of its ability to destroy any computer the hacker wanted.
Now a Hong Kong company has made a similar product called USB Kill 2.0, and it costs 49.95 dollars.
The company claims that it developed the product with the sole purpose of allowing businesses to check whether their devices are vulnerable to attacks USB power supply.
The device also comes with a protection shield sold for 13.95 dollars and allows users to test their devices without destroying them.
Removing this protective shield essentially arms the device, which is then able to "burn" any device it connects to.
The company released USB Kill 2.0 on August 16, but the first batch is already running out.
According to company testing, 95 percent of all available computers in today's market are vulnerable to power attacks through the USB port.
The only devices not vulnerable to USB Kill attacks are recently models of Macbook, which isolate the data coming in from the USB ports.
After the above attention to every device that you connect to your computer ... especially USB drives.
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