Vodafone distributes botnet

    Vodafone distributes botnet


    Posted: 10 Mar 2010
    Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last.

    Vodafone distributes Mariposa botnet | Panda Research Blog
    dmex's Avatar Posted By: dmex
    10 Mar 2010



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    energizer and now vodafone, you would think the software engineers of these big companies would at least check for virri(?) before sending the software out in the wild !!
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    It was probably QA who put the virus in there lol

    <nothing against QA people>
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    dmex said:
    Here is yet another example of a company distributing malware to its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last.

    Vodafone distributes Mariposa botnet | Panda Research Blog
    Nothing for or against Vodafone, but if you read the comments, you'll see that it was not the phone that was infected, but the memory card. The accusation seems to be a bit hasty to me. After all only one phone was tested and as one of the comments say,
    We have 16 HTC Magics purchased in the last 3 weeks, and no Mariposas!
    Am I the only one who can detect the pungent odour of Snake Oil in this ridiculous beat-up ?

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