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The Code That Built a City: Solving the 33-Year Mystery Behind Google’s Málaga Hub

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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-code-that-built-a-city-solving-the-33-year-mystery-behind-googles-malaga-hub. It took Bernardo Quintero more than three decades to track down the ghost in the machine. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #virus-total, #malaga, #cybersecurity-capital, #quintero, #butterfly-effect, #butterfly-effect-virus, #butterfly-virus, and more. This story was written by: @nxuanchinh. Learn more about this writer by checking @nxuanchinh's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Bernardo Quintero is the founder of VirusTotal, a startup that was acquired by Google in 2012. He spent more than three decades trying to find the author of a computer virus that transformed the Spanish city of Málaga into a cybersecurity capital.

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