Perhaps worth pointing out that the attacks require the attacker to position a piece of hardware between the Qi charger and the power source.

According to the researchers, "A charger can be manipulated to control voice assistants via inaudible voice commands, damage devices being charged through overcharging or overheating, and bypass Qi-standard specified foreign-object-detection mechanism to damage valuable items exposed to intense magnetic fields."

So if someone swaps your Qi charger for a malicious one they can ruin your phone (or some other device it's supposed to detect as not a phone ?) and maybe execute arbitrary voice commands... 🥱

Talk about a burner phone 😎☀️ Aaaaaeeeoooowwww

If feel this is (unintentionally) stretching the use of the word cyberattack. Rightly or wrongly, most people consider a cyberattack a form of hacking/attack that's executed via a network or the internet.

I know its true definition any form of attack against data, network, or computing device (including smartphones), but this headline could easily lead people to think their phones could be set on fire by some anonymous l337 hAx0r over the internet.

While technically true, it requires physical exploit first.

this is unrelated but that is a really nice diagram

A charger can be manipulated to control voice assistants via inaudible voice commands...

This seems like the scarier attack, to be honest...

Though, surely there's filtering that can be performed to prevent that as an attack vector

So... Considering necessary access, it's a quarter step above "cooking a phone in a microwave oven might catch it on fire", IMO.

Let's pray they don't find a way to detonate the batteries!