I feel like every time I read about something ad-related it's usually in a negative context. This malware doesn't even care if it's not executed as root... it just needs the device to falsify ad clicks/impressions. And I guess nobody really cares, because the probably huge amount of bot action on ad exchanges just makes the pie larger for everyone.

(With all of Google's talent and machine learning and AI, it can't detect this junk? please...)

All the more reason to avoid hardware from this company.