During travel, many passengers charge their phones or other devices using public charging stations or borrowing other unknown co-passengers’ chargers or charging cables. That unknown passenger could be a scammer too. Nowadays, the same cable is used for transferring data and supplying power. To perform the attack, scammers infect USB ports or charging cables in public areas or share an infected charging cable or charger with a co-passenger. An Infected charging port or cable is used to steal data or install malware on the devices connected to it. This type of scam is called “Juice Jacking”. Though at present, the researchers are dividing whether Juice Jacking is a real issue or media hype. But in my view, scammers may be going to use this kind of technique in the future. I think all public charging ports or cables should be capable of only providing proper power supply. After all, they are built for charging purposes only. Due to power supply issues or faulty sockets, many times mobile charging wires get damaged. Most devices have Bluetooth, so people already have this option to transfer a sufficient chunk of data in case of some emergency.
