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Vodafone's HTC Magic shipping with Mariposa botnet malware
Newsbrief by Todd Haselton on Tuesday March 09, 2010.
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Reports are surfacing that Vodafone in Spain is shipping the Android powered HTC Magic devices loaded with Mariposa botnet malware. The bots were planted by a hacker named "tnls." Vodafone says the attack was an isolated incident and that it is taking appropriate actions to safeguard its customer privacy.
source: Panda Research Blog, via: ReghardwareAdvertisement
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