Hacker Devices: O.MG Charging Cable

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Excerpt From wi-fi vulnerabilities part 2 Webinar
CTO Dr. Brettt Walkenhorst On Hacker Devices: O.MG Charging Cable.
The O.MG charging cable, which is a covert pen testing instrument hidden as a standard charging cable with a microcontroller with an integrated Wi-Fi stack and antennae, is explained by CTO Dr. Brett Walkenhorst in the clip below. When connected in, it creates a Wi-Fi command and control interface that enables attackers to carry out a variety of harmful tasks, such as data exfiltration, malware installation, and keyboard injection. Find out more about O.MG cables that have been found in actual situations.

Video Transcript

The o m g charging cable is an interesting one similar to the USB rubberducky. It looks just like a charging cable, but if I plug it in, it powers up a microcontroller that has a wifi stack built in with antennas and basically establishes a command and control interface to the attacker over wifi so that I can do all kinds of things.

Everything that I described for the USB rubber ducky, I can do here inject keystrokes, exfiltrate data, install malware, all kinds of things. And and this isn't theoretical stuff, by the way, an o m g cable was found by Bestille, on an executive floor of of a huge commercial company, like fortune ten style company.

So this stuff is out there.