Who Got Hacked This Week? August 12 Edition

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Malicious iPhone Cable Hacks Macs Remotely

An iPhone Lightning cable that has been configured to enable remote, malicious access to a computer is not just on show at Def Con this year, it’s on sale. The cable looks and works like an original Apple USB cable—and so it should, because the O.MG cables started out as exactly that. Except this cable has its little after-market twist—when it’s used to connect a phone to a Mac, it enables an attacker to mount a wireless hijack of the computer.

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