New Sober variant tricks users in German
A new Sober mass mailer worm is slithering its way around the Net and tricking users into opening attachments with clever messages in both English and German, antivirus companies warned Tuesday.
W32.Sober.N@mm sends e-mail messages with the subject headers "I've_got your EMail on my_account!" and "FwD: Ich bin's nochmal" and carries attachments with names like your_text.zip, according to Helsinki security firm F-Secure Corp. When opened, the attachment scans files on the infected computer to harvest e-mail addresses that enable the worm to spread.
Symantec Corp. also released an advisory on the Sober variant, rating its damage as "medium."
The worm was first reported at 2 a.m. CET, and has been spreading in Europe, particularly in German speaking countries, according to Mikko Hypp
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