Plus, there’s this: Apple devices are now reportedly sitting ducks too. The new kill stick has a higher voltage and amp output, and its pulse rate, which can ramp up to 12 times a second, is 3x higher than the previous version. The company has released USB Killer Version 3 (PDF), and it’s deadlier than ever.
Or better, depending on whether you’re a fryer or a fryee. Here’s one of many YouTube videos of the near-instant death throes of a sitting duck non-MacBook:īut wait, there’s more.
According to Bleeping Computer, the only products that could withstand USB Killer 2.0 were recent MacBook models, since they optically isolate the data lines on USB ports. The charge/discharge cycle is repeated many times per second, until the USB Killer is removed, leaving about 95% of all devices partially or permanently damaged. It works in a fraction of a second, frying circuits in laptops, PC monitors, photo booths, kiosks, or even cars. Then, once it’s full, it turns around and electro-vomits all that power back into the drive. Once you plug it in, the USB Killer rapidly charges all those capacitors from the USB power supply. The so-called USB Killer – which comes from a Hong Kong company – looks like a standard USB drive, but it’s actually filled with capacitors. Test, or, as the case may be for devices lacking surge protection, zap to death. Back in September, many tech publications highlighted a killer stick: a USB stick marketed to pen testers and law enforcement that could be used to test the surge protection circuitry of electronics.
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