Vendors have been shipping Android products with Android Debug Bridge enabled, making them attractive targets for hackers.

"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.

Google has made ADB and fastboot available as a standalone package, meaning users no longer need to download them with Android Studio or the Android SDK.

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.

However, some might prefer to use the ADB interface through a computer. The setup process involves more than the on-device wireless debugging feature introduced with Android 11.

WinADB is a graphical front-end for adb commands which is an all-in-one solution for carrying out the most common adb commands.

Instead, ADB on Fuchsia is only intended for working with devices while they’re early in development, making some of those initial stages of development and testing — Google cites “bring-up ...