March 20, 2010
Hot News: Vodafone Spain Admits to Having 3,000 Malware Infected HTC Magics
Tagged Under : Infected, Malware, Spain, Vodafone
There’s no hiding the fact that when something new, the first thing I do is open the box, pop in the battery (if you need a battery), and then turn that thing off and start walking your business. I do not want, which is to activate the device, and knowing you have some information-jacking botnet malware program running on it. That’s a bad day. That’s exactly what happened to several thousand people who recently took a HTC Vodafone Spain Magic, the wireless service provider has recently admitted.
Mariposa’s agent officially infected botnet somewhere in the stadium of 3,000 handsets, the company told the Spanish press on Thursday. The company had met its Iberian branch, along with representatives from Panda Software, which really caught the infringement of malware from the beginning. Vodafone Spain has a magic HTC a company representative to test and that when this whole problem started, back in early March. While Butterfly is the big name to be launched at any time, it seems that other malware strains were also found in many of the Magics HTC. How was the theft of information from the program to find its way into phones? Using SD cards. A second infection was also confirmed by the announcement earlier this week when a phone made its way to a security consultant S21sec.
Vodafone Spain is now in the works for MicroSD cards replacement of 3,000. Not because I think it is a precautionary measure, but because it has fully admitted that 3,000 devices are more than likely infected. Fortunately, Vodafone is investigating the situation, and so far has found that the event is a “localized” and not spread through other terminals of Vodafone Europe. This is definitely shocking news, but we are pleased that the wireless service provider is to admit the problem and do what they have to do to fix the situation. We hope you can cut off the source and prevent something like this happening again.






