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https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-cyberattack-smartphone-wireless-charger.html

A team of security experts at the University of Florida working
with security audit company CertiK has found that a certain class
of cyberattacks could cause a smartphone to catch fire via its
wireless charger. The team has posted a paper describing their
research and results on the arXiv preprint server.

. . .

In bare essence, the attack involves disrupting the feedback
signal from the phone that tells the charger to quit charging.
So, the battery gets badly over-charged and is likely to
catch fire.

The "smarter" devices get, the more routes of attack.

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