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Warning: Protect your phone from choicejacking before it's too late - here's how
A new tactic, called choicejacking, allows a malicious device to pose as a charging station to capture your personal data, NordVPN says.
"Choicejacking is particularly dangerous because it manipulates a device into making decisions users never intended -- all without them realizing it," Adrianus Warmenhoven, a cybersecurity advisor at NordVPN, said in the report. With juicejacking, hackers install software on charging stations at airports and other public spots that can then automatically scoop up data from your connected phone. Affecting Android and sometimes iOS devices, this tactic can use such technical methods as keystroke injection, input buffer overflows, and protocol abuse to complete a data transfer in as few as 133 milliseconds.
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