personally i don't think a device can invite you to take a mark on it (not even if you use puppeteer on it), that only the owner can invite you to take a mark on one of his devices. but this kinda depend on your reading i guess......
you need to cause matrix damage if you want to brick a device and you need to use attack actions if you want to cause matrix damage (and successful attacks will notify the owner).
unless you are a technomancer of course. they can cause matrix damage using resonance actions (which will not notify the owner when they successfully cause matrix damage - they do also not cause overwatch btw).
......but if you have enough time to set up you could have 3 marks, the correct cyberprograms loaded and your attack rating configured high enough to brick a device with one single spike....