Hacker hacked a computer with a USB cable. Kevin Mitnick.
In this video, Kevin Mitnick, one of history's greatest hackers, demonstrates how an attacker can remotely access a computer in your organization using a USB cable.
This cable, called the USB Ninja Lightning, looks slightly different from the original Apple Lightning cable, but functions just like a regular USB cable, charging the phone and transferring data.
Until the attacker executes a pre-configured payload by pressing a button on the Bluetooth transmitter.
That's it, the cable runs a special script and infects the machine with malware. This is a remote access Trojan that gives complete control over the victim's computer.
The USB Ninja contains an Arduino with a Bluetooth module, into whose memory you can load approximately 2,000 characters of payload code. This could be anything: a Trojan, a worm, a link to a phishing site, a keylogger, a rootkit, etc. The Bluetooth remote also has two buttons that can be used to launch two different scripts simultaneously. Incidentally, the attack can also be launched from any smartphone using a dedicated open-source app.
This makes the USB Ninja a very smart and dangerous device in the right hands.