Security Firms Warn of Sober Worm Threat
TechNewsWorld
The New Year may bring yet another threat from the Sober family of worms, according to security researchers who say a recently discovered variant of the worm contains code that could unleash a new round of attacks on Jan. 5, 2006.Security firm iDefense , which is owned by VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) , said a variant of Sober found in November contains encrypted code that will command infected computers to download unknown code from Web servers on Jan. 5, 2006.
The date is significant, the firm said, because it marks the anniversary of the founding of the Nazi party in 1919 and coincides with the start of a major political convention in Germany.The firm said the attack could have "a significantly detrimental effect on Internet traffic, as e-mail servers are flooded with politically motivated spam e-mails from potentially tens of millions of e-mail addresses."
Dec 10, 2005
TechNewsWorld
The New Year may bring yet another threat from the Sober family of worms, according to security researchers who say a recently discovered variant of the worm contains code that could unleash a new round of attacks on Jan. 5, 2006.Security firm iDefense , which is owned by VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) , said a variant of Sober found in November contains encrypted code that will command infected computers to download unknown code from Web servers on Jan. 5, 2006.
The date is significant, the firm said, because it marks the anniversary of the founding of the Nazi party in 1919 and coincides with the start of a major political convention in Germany.The firm said the attack could have "a significantly detrimental effect on Internet traffic, as e-mail servers are flooded with politically motivated spam e-mails from potentially tens of millions of e-mail addresses."
Dec 10, 2005
