BadPower can melt or set your phone on fire

[Redaktion]

Chinese security researchers discovered that the firmware of fast chargers can be corrupted to deliver higher charging parameters, thus damaging the devices connected to them. A charger affected by a BadPower attack can melt or even set on fire the handset/external battery it is supposed to charge.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/BadPower-can-melt-or-set-your-phone-on-fire.482336.0.html

[S.Yu]

...I didn't know chargers could even get firmware upgrades.

[Codrut Nistor]

I will be honest and tell you that it was something new for me as well. ;)

[S.Yu]

😂