The FBI is warning the public not to use public charging stations to replenish the battery powering their mobile devices.
While you might think that public charging stations are a godsend-and they certainly can be for smartphone owners who have little to no battery life remaining and don’t have a power bank with them-they are also dangerous. That’s the word from the organization that J. Edgar Hoover himself ran for so many years, the FBI. Today’s FBI loves to take advantage of modern technology so it’s no surprise that the G-men took to their Twitter account to punch out a tweet (via DigitalTrends) warning consumers about this risk.
The Tweet from the FBI’s Denver office says, “Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices.
