---
id: 8697
title: "OATmeal on the Universal Cereal Bus: Exploiting Android phones over USB"
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2018/09/oatmeal-on-universal-cereal-bus.html"
published_at: "2018-09-10T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "exploit", "project-zero", "usb", "physical-attack"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8697"
lang: en
---

# OATmeal on the Universal Cereal Bus: Exploiting Android phones over USB

## Summary

Recently, there has been some attention around the topic of physical attacks on smartphones, where an attacker with the ability to connect USB devices to a locked phone attempts to gain access to the data stored on the device. This blogpost describes how such an attack could have been performed against Android devices (tested with a Pixel 2).

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **Published:** 2018-09-10T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2018/09/oatmeal-on-universal-cereal-bus.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8697