How can a public USB charging station be manipulated by criminals to put a virus on my phone?
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The U in USB means Universal because you can have nearly any connection or device use USB. That means in order for your PC to communicate with the USB device it needs to identify what it does(storage, sound output etc) and might need to install special drivers for that. If you plug in a USB mouse in a windows PC it will download and install a generic mouse(HID human input device) driver that can deal with what the USB is sending and translate it to mouse movements. These drivers are from certified windows servers and tested for malware, so its kot likeley to get malware that way, but not impossible ether.
So USB does a lot of magic in the background, but gettig malware from that is still super hard and more a state founded hacker level and not something a random kid in a basement is going to develop. But i guess you ask this because some US secret service released a warning?
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