A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to gain shell-level privileges without requiring a computer connection.

Dark Atlas said in research published on September 8 that the malware, which it tracks as THost9, hid executable code inside an Android application package before loading a second-stage payload called ...

ADB (Android Debug Bridge) is a tool used for Android development and for using special features and applications. Changes to this tool are being considered, and there is a possibility that the ...

Google platform engineers are discussing and evaluating restricting the Android Debug Bridge daemon (adbd) to external interfaces, such as Wi-Fi (wlan0). Blocking “localhost loopback” addresses would ...