One or two? Vodafone ships 3000 infected smartphones
The Spanish anti virus vendor Panda reported at his blog, that Vodafone delivers HTC Magic with Mariposa bot. Vodafone Germany spokesman Thorsten Höpken told the German security website Heise Security, that it was only one single smartphone in Spain. He told, it has been manipulated in its packing by a customer and than recirculated with a bogus seal.
So I reported here at March 10, 2010. Seven days later Vodafone admits that there is another single Mariposa infected HTC Magic and today it turns out, that Vodafone Spain accepted that 3,000 customers were potentially exposed to the Mariposa malware, The Register reported. We will see what comes next…
