Malware and Trojan Virus Found on HTC Android Phone From Vodafone

Researcher Pedro Bustamante an employee of Panda Security a Spanish antivirus firm stated they received a new Android based Vodafone that contained malware. When the phone was plugged into a PC with a USB, Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an autorun.inf and autorun.exe files as malicious.

Bustamante wrote; “A quick look into the phone quickly revealed it was infected and spreading the infection to any and all PCs that the phone would be plugged into.” The discovered malware turned out to be related to the Mariposa botnet but Conficker a Trojan based program was also discovered on the HTC. Conficker is a Lineage password-stealing virus.

Vodafone made a brief statement that said it is investigating the matter; “Following extensive quality assurance testing on HTC Magic handsets in several of our operating companies, early indications are that this was an isolated local incident,” the statement said.

[cnet]

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