// Hacker Noon · 14 January 2026

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

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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