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More Evidence Discovered Of Vodafone-Mariposa Problem
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2010-03-17
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Europeans who have recently purchased a specific sort of smartphone from Vodafone might want to keep it far away from their computers (or run some virus scans if it's too late for that). Today, a researcher announced that he's found the Mariposa botnet client preloaded on a second HTC Magic device.
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The first incident occurred on March 8th when Pedro Bustamante, a senior research advisor at Panda Research, discovered evidence of malware on a colleague's new cell phone. Vodafone acknowledged the problem, but characterized it as an isolated incident.
Now, that doesn't appear to be the case. Bustamante stated today that someone working at another security company, S21Sec, also found Mariposa on his phone, and then passed along a microSD card as proof.
Bustamante wrote, "The Mariposa botnet client itself is exactly the same as reported last week, with the same nickname and same Command & Control servers." What's more, "there was also more malware in the SD card in addition to Mariposa. I also found a Win32/AutoRun worm . . ."
This isn't going to do wonders for Vodafone's reputation. At the same time, it's hard not to imagine that plenty of people will never hear of the problem and remain at risk.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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