Juice Jacking Hits the Highway with Hacked EV Chargers

Public chargers are becoming the next lure in the juice-jacking playbook, this time targeting your phone, your wallet, and – in edge cases – your car. Here’s what EV drivers need to do before plugging in.

Why this matters now

EV charging is exploding, and, with it, a flurry of payment apps, QR codes, vendor backends and new car-to-charger protocols.

Researchers and agencies have been warning for years about “juice jacking” against phones via shady USB ports; threat actors are now adapting si