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Malware threats, hoaxes, and taxonoMy
ads were not easily blocked and usually required either the complete
removal of the infected application or another application to block the
ads from being pushed.
Counterclank
Counterclank was a variety of Plankton Android malware and was
also known as Apperhand SDK. is application had two major anti-
virus companies scratching their heads trying to determine whether
this was an adware or a malware. It turned out Counterclank was
an aggressive form of an ad network. It was capable of identifying
a user’s device by their IMEI. Counterclank had features like push
notication ads where it constantly exerted advertisements on the
device’s notication bar. It also had the app Icon feature, which cre-
ated a ...