Many e-cigarettes can be charged over USB, either with a special cable, or by plugging the cigarette itself directly into a USB port. That might be a USB port plugged into a wall socket or the port on a computer but, if so, that means that a cheap e-cigarette from an untrustworthy supplier gains physical access to a
device.
A report on social news site Reddit suggests that at least one vaper has suffered the downside of trusting their cigarette manufacturer. One particular executive had a malware infection on his computer from which the source could not be determined,
the user writes. After all traditional means of infection were covered, IT started looking into other possibilities.
