"Overall, we believe malicious code based on the Android system ADB debug interface is now actively spreading in worms and infected over 5,000 devices in 24 hours," the team says.

Researchers discovered a cryptocurrency mining botnet that uses the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi interface and SSH connections to hosts stored in the known_hosts list to spread to other devices.

Researchers spot Trinity and Fbot botnets trying to infect Android devices via the ADB interface.

The security community raised the alarm regarding a serious issue last week —that of Android devices shipping with their debug port open to remote connections.

A high-risk Android custom boot mode vulnerability was one of many bugs patched by Google as part of its January Android Security Bulletin released earlier this week. On Thursday, the IBM security ...

You can still use the tool to run your own custom commands, so Universal ADB Helper can run as your main ADB interface without changing your normal flow when you need to do more complex tasks.