iPhone 13 user? BEWARE! This cable can Steal your money! Know how to protect yourself from online scam

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Picture this. You’re outdoors and need to charge your iPhone 13. But there are no outlets available. So, you decide to use your laptop to charge the smartphone. You plug it in with a lightning cable that you just borrowed from someone and get back to work. You may have opened your social media to check notification, you might have made an online payment or just logged into your personal email account to reply to mails. And then, you leave your device for five minutes to go talk to a friend or go to the washroom. Once you’re back, you find all the money from your bank account gone! Also read: How to know if your iPhone or Android device has been infected by a virus

To make it worse, you have lost access to your social media and email account and someone is posting incriminating content on them. First reported by Forbes, let us check out this equal parts innovative and dangerous technology.

All of this can be done using one Lightning cable, and you will never suspect a thing. What is this new hacking device and how can it be used to steal your money? Read on to find out. Also check how to protect your iPhone 13 from this online scam.

While this technology has existed for a while and hackers all over the world use it to their advantage, according to Forbes, a company called O.MG has made these attack hardwares that look like USB storage, Lightning cables, Lightning to USB-C adapters, android USB cables that look like the charging cable for Samsung devices and more. The company is not trying to run online scams on people, however. It is a security research firm that sells these devices to spread awareness about the vulnerabilities that exist in our devices. In fact, selling these products are completely legal as well. If you'd