Two botnets are fighting over control of thousands of unsecured Android devices Researchers spot Trinity and Fbot botnets trying to infect Android devices via the ADB interface November 2, 2018 https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-b...ol-of-thousands-of-unsecured-android-devices/
Yea, seems to work: Like shown above, connecting to ADB enabled phone does not give you root rights automatically. But it's a small leap from there to use some android exploit to get full root powers... And shodan shows 32 000+ ADB enabled devices as of now ....
I take back my words... You totally can p0wn (get root rights) android devices throught ADB without any special exploit... As long as there is one (or the second) little setting set up in the device....
