As Many as 3,000 Vodafone Memory Cards Infected by Malware

The malware that was found on a pair of Vodafone memory cards installed in HTC Magic handsets recently has in fact affected an entire batch of 3,000 memory cards, the company said. Vodafone Spain said that the company’s investigation into the incident found that a much larger number of cards was...

Mariposa Bot Found Pre-Loaded on Second Vodafone Handset

It seems that the HTC Magic phone distributed by Vodafone in Spain that security researchers discovered recently was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client was not an isolated incident after all, as the concerned party had claimed. An employee of another Spanish security vendor found the same...

Vodafone-Distributed Handset Found Pre-installed With Mariposa Bot

Security researchers have found the Mariposa bot client pre-installed on a mobile phone handset distributed in Europe, and say that the malware looks to have been installed on the phone’s memory card. The phone, the HTC Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is a low-priced...