New Delhi: USB sticks for long have been the agents of malware and spreading infection to unsuspecting computer systems making them dysfunctional but still curable. However, a new type of USB device has the potential to damage your computer, completely.
A researcher who goes by the name Dark Purple has built a USB stick that fries up the internals of a computer system within seconds of being plugged.
By appearance, the USB Killer 2.0 looks like any other normal stick but delivers a negative 220-volt electric surge into the USB port and moves from the notion of software damage to a whole new concept of physical destruction of victim computers.
Dark Purple’s blog post explains that the new version of the USB device has been improved with twice the output voltage and is more compact than the earlier version.
The killer device isn’t only meant to burn down computers or laptops, but capable enough to destroy all devices with USB ports like TVs, routers, modems, and even smartphones with OTG support.
It is not clear how much internal damage is done to the device as shown in the demo video below. While there is an obvious possibility of the USB port and motherboard getting damaged, the hard drive or CPU have a chance of surviving.
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