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3000 virus-infected MicroSD cards to be replaced by Vodafone Spain

article published on 20 March, 2010

Vodafone Spain has confirmed today that they accidently shipped 3000 smartphone handsets with MicroSD cards that were infected by the "Mariposa" malware. Those affected are users who were shipped HTC Magic phones. The carrier came clean after a meeting with Panda Security. The story of the infected memory cards began when a Panda technician was shipped an HTC Magic phone. He immediately ... [ read the full article ]

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Pop_Smith
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_ 		21. March 2010 @ 02:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
An article at ZDNet claims that the infected SD Cards also were carrying around Conficker and Linage, which is a password stealing malware.
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crackalak
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_ 		21. March 2010 @ 12:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
they have finally owned up to it then, has been known about for a while and it wasn't just limited to spain.
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shaffaaf
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_ 		21. March 2010 @ 22:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
how did it get on there?
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s_c47
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_ 		25. March 2010 @ 23:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Fail!
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