Vodafone Spain Provides Botnet Smartphone

Vodafone Spain has provided a pre-infected smartphone to a researcher at S21Sec, one week after a similar incident in which the company provided an infected smartphone to a researcher at Panda Security. The smartphones are infected with the Mariposa botnet client and other malware.

Both of the smartphones were order at approximately the same time, according to The Register. When the incident with Panda Security occurred, Vodafone claimed that it…