Saint Energizer DUO, of the Charger With a Back Door

Patron of USB chargers, drivers that do too much, and ports that open by surprise.

Life

On 9 March 2010 CVE-2010-0103 was catalogued: the software for the Energizer DUO USB charger secretly installed a library that stayed listening on TCP port 7777. From there, anyone on the network could download and run programs on the victim's Windows PC. A charger that, along with the batteries, also topped up the attackers.

Prayer

O Saint Energizer DUO, who brings a back door along with the charge, let our accessories not open what they shouldn't. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by uninstalling the charger software, deleting the Arucer.dll library, and closing port 7777.