A new botnet is making the rounds by abusing Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and SSH to enslave new Android devices to its network. The botnet malware, as observed by Trend Micro, has spread to 21 ...

A new cryptocurrency-mining botnet malware is abusing Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and SSH, according to Trend Micro. “This attack takes advantage of the way open ADB ports don’t have authentication by ...

Vendors have been shipping Android products with Android Debug Bridge enabled, making them attractive targets for hackers. Poorly configured Android devices, where the Android Debug Bridge is left ...

Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you watch on them but because of what they might be doing in the background.

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. The issue is not new, being first ...

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) backup and restore commands may be removed in a future Android release, as detailed in a commit merged into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) git repository. adb is ...

Netlab, the networking security division of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, said it discovered this week a new fledgling malware operation that is currently infecting Android devices for the purpose ...

A new report out today from mobile security firm iVerify Inc. sheds light on the alarming ease with which cybercriminals can now rent advanced Android malware through subscription-based ...