Juice jacking” was coined in a 2011 article on KrebsOnSecurity detailing an attack demonstrated at a Defcon security ...

From here, the attacks exploit weaknesses in iOS and Android that allow a charger to autonomously inject “input events” that can enter text or click buttons shown in these on-screen prompts ...

As security experts revealed at BlackHat Asia, they managed to steal data from smartphones via USB – and even delete devices.