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 ...

An image of Android's wireless debugging settings page on a Pixel phone. Original photo by Ryan Haines. Gemini Nano Banana Pro was used to place the screenshot onto the screen. Launched with Android ...

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.

Available as a part of Android 17, Google is making wireless debugging a whole lot more reliable with ADB Wi-Fi 2.0. Wireless debugging has been around in Android for quite some time now, but it’s not ...