USB killer – how to discreetly destroy a computer?

Many ordinary looking objects may be more dangerous than you think. This is especially true when it comes to detective equipment – cameras hidden in buttons or listening bugs camouflaged in a surge protector. There’re things that you just wouldn’t imagine, watching you, listening and recording your every move. Let’s look at the dynamite, Nobel created it to demolish old buildings but his invention turned into one of the most dangerous weapons of the First World War. Or drugs – they are helpful in certain dosage, while harmful or even lethal in other. The same can be said about the product on our offer.

The USB Killer is as dangerous as its name suggests but when you look at this inconspicuous-looking pen drive, you only see an ordinary flash drive for storing data. You couldn’t be more wrong! It’s filled not with data but capacitors which, once it’s inserted into a USB slot, are instantly charged to 110 V. Then this charge is discharged straight over the data lines of a computer. This process is repeated as many times as needed for the computer to be destroyed.

Why was the USB Killer created?
When everyone cares about their computer software by using antivirus programmes, not visiting suspicious websites or avoid logging to web portals without appropriate security certificates, Russian students wanted to remind us that a computer may not only be attacked online or by software but also through hardware. That’s why they created the USB Killer – a pen drive that instantly ‘kills’ any computer. Many people do use flash drives of unknown origin or with no knowledge of what’s on them, right?

According to research, 95% of motherboards aren’t protected against hardware attack. This flaw is ruthlessly exploited by the USB Killer so it is a great tool for finding security weaknesses in your equipment or actually destroying it.
Are you interested how it works in practice? More information and tests are available in this article on the USB Killer.