Sober-N World Cup worm aims to foul football fans
Filed in: Security — May 4th, 2005
Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos’s global network of virus and spam analysis centres, have warned users about a new widespread email worm, posing as tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
In the last 24 hours the W32/Sober-N worm has swept to the top of the most widespread virus chart, accounting for 77.03% of all viruses seen by Sophos’s monitoring stations around the world.
Like earlier versions of the Sober worm, the bilingual virus can travel in both English and German language emails as a malicious attached file. The worm can use a variety of different subject lines and message bodies, and when sent in German can pretend to be an email from FIFA (the international football association) saying the recipient has won free tickets for the 2006 soccer World Cup.
However, if the user opens the attached file they will become infected by the worm, and it will mass-mail itself to other email addresses found on the infected PC.
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Thought:
Don’t be fool. There is no free lunch. Do NOT open email attachment.
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May 4th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
i guess this worldcup soccer gonna be the hottest ever
May 4th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
you see, the worm/virus writer study psychology!