How Dangerous Can Someone's USB Be?

Whether its a USB from a friend or a teacher perhaps you could never trust what are in those memory sticks, the first USB were first introduced in the early 1999's back then USB's were at on expensive and not much use. But nowadays the USB are cheap as chips and there used to transfers movies or school assignments but the USB's are kinda DANGEROUS some USB's can fit viruses and even worse it can steal information by the second you plug that USB in, also there is this modified USB called the USB killer and those are the worst kind of USB's out there. Here's what a usb killer really is, its a green chip filled with capacitors (normally 6) that when plugged into the computer the power goes straight into the USB and returns back into the computer meaning that in 0.5-1 seconds it will destroy your mother board of your computer, scary right? so before you let anyone plug there USB into your computer make sure there safe to plug in your computer. Also there is a type of USB you can buy online for an extremely cheap price called the rubber ducky it costs around $40 USD (OFFCIAL WEBSITE) that is a USB that you encode files into the USB then you can steal any passwords, pictures, docs, videos from any victims computer with just a plug into the computer. If you would want you to know how to do it with a normal USB you can click HERE that would give you a tutorial on how to make your own USB stealer.

Last but not least if you want to know how to prevent this these hackers from stealing your information you should try to invest time to install an ANTI-VIRUS program specifically for malicious USB's there's one program i recommend that is AVG, as for the USB killers i mentioned there is no solution to prevent it once the USB has inserted into your computer then that's it your computer would be destroyed for ever. so this was a blog for awareness if ever someones suspicious now you know these things :) 

Once again be safe with those USB's !! XD

- Zayn Kelly
UPDATED: 03/02/2017