Malicious iPhone Charges That Install Malware

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Just one more thing to worry about if you are an iPhone owner.

Plugging your phone into a charger should be pretty safe to do. It should fill your phone with electricity, not malware. But researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have produced fake chargers they've named Mactans that do more than just charge your phone: they install custom, malicious applications onto iPhones.
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Wouldn't it be funny if Apple themselves created these fake 3rd party chargers to scare people into only buying Officially licensed ones...
 
The one big disadvantage over using a USB port as the charging port. But honestly, the phone needs to not trust anything it is plugged into. Hell, even asking the user isn't going to work, because there are users stupid enough to say yes to the prompt.
 
LOL that is kind of funny. I'm sure this is possible with any device where the power and data are the same port though, which normally is the case as it's basically USB. In the case of apple it's their weird proprietary connector, but same idea.
 
Relax everyone. This is only an issue with ios7. Which is still in testing. It's being fixed
 
spugnor said:
The one big disadvantage over using a USB port as the charging port. But honestly, the phone needs to not trust anything it is plugged into. Hell, even asking the user isn't going to work, because there are users stupid enough to say yes to the prompt.
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iPhones don't use a USB port to charge, Apple uses their own charging port.
 
mjz_5 said:
Relax everyone. This is only an issue with ios7. Which is still in testing. It's being fixed
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No, It's also a problem in 6. 7 asks if you want to trust the device when it's first connected and beta 2 is supposed to block bad devices by default.
 
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