{"id":104584,"date":"2026-01-19T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104584\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:50:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-kane-in-your-corner-cyber-experts-warn-of-hacking-risk-from-charging-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104584\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Kane In Your Corner: Cyber experts warn of hacking risk from charging cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts are warning about a new threat from ordinary-looking charging cables in New York City this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Kane in Your Corner investigation finds that some cables contain a hidden chip that turns them into hacking tools. The device is called an O.MG cable.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity expert Scott Schober says once connected the cable can inject malware log keystrokes or take over a computer or mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Schober notes there is no easy visual way to tell a bad cable from a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike malicious USB drives these cables cost over $100 each so hackers are not likely to leave them randomly for people to find.<\/p>\n<p>Schober advises never using a cable you did not buy or whose history is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>He recommends initialing personal cables to confirm they belong to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity experts are warning about a new threat from ordinary-looking charging cables in New York City this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,47474,9,24,63,10693],"class_list":{"0":"post-104584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-kane-in-your-corner","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-scams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}