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Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party
Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party.""
Wow. Does this mean the thread is over before it's even started???
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
These summaries are getting worse and worse.
If you only have two sentences, leave it at that! You don't need to put them in the summary twice in the hopes nobody will notice.
Well, that's silly. Everyone knows that drunken attacks always go over better...
I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!
The linked article doesn't imply Sober has anything to do with Nazism. Was the Sober writer a Neo-Nazi? If so, it would've made much more sense to include this in the article or submitter's comments so the "Nazi anniversary" comment would mean something.
You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?
My userid is prime!
It's also the day that Buddy Holly released his last album. What the hell does any of this have to do with anything. Sheesh.
If you search before you post, you'll know that Sober-G was used to send out Neo-Nazi spam. Buddy Holly was not.
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
I think a more appropriate date would be February 27. The date that led to the total 0wnage of Weimar Germany.
There's nothing like a good gunfight to uplift the spirit--Calvin
Now there's going to be all sorts of virus / worm stuff related to important dates, like July 4 or the founding of the USSR, or whatever. I thought the whole date-triggered thing went out of fashion with the Michelangelo virus.
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...accueillir nos nouveaux suzerains nazis.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Guess this was a bad time to try out my new Little Frenchie Anti-Virus Software.
Trolls: The high-tech version of those morons that scrawl obscenities in public bathrooms.
the 64th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Habor.
OMFG... conspiracy! There must be a connection somewhere.
Just let me think of it, and I'll get back to you...
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
I call Godwin!
The grave insecurity of the day is the Sober worm which is currently pushing nearly 25% of all email traffic at the moment. Unlike previous worms, Sober can disable the Windows Firewall and Symantec Antivirus. Interestingly, patched machines are not vulnerable to the exploits used by this worm.
They could be celebrating the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit! Or the first PC by Hewlett Packard! Maybe the birth of Marilyn Manson! Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.
"The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm."
See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/widespread
Main Entry: widespread
Pronunciation: 'wId-'spred
Function: adjective
1 : widely diffused or prevalent - ex: "widespread public interest"
2 : widely extended or spread out - ex: "low, widespread hood and fenders"br>
The Grammar Nazis never miss a chance at spoiling an event.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_April#Events
gee there must be a nazi conspiracy, just look at all the things that happened on ol' adolf's birthday....
87 years eh... gee 8+7=15! 1x5=5!! 5=fifth letter=H(itler) tuooodoootooodooo!! {twilight zone tune}
WTF!!! Is slashdot gonna open up a section for conspiracy theorists, witchhunts and numerology??
You're joking, right? It's always Windows.
I'm not joking.
First, there is one virus announcement for Linux that I recall this past year.
Second, Microsoft should never escape having their product explicitly associated with the malware it hosts.
Third, the rest of the IT industry does not deserve the wide-ranging implication that this is a "computer virus". This is a Windows virus.
For all of you posting all the other events that happend on Jan. 5th, please RTFA: "The company says the attack could have a significant damaging effect on internet traffic, as the worm designed to send politically motivated spam from tens of millions of e-mail addresses. The next phase of the multi-phased Sober worm has been discovered by iDefense using reverse-engineering techniques in the most recent version of the worm." The article coins another brilliant 'ism: hacktivism before going on to the above article. The connection to the Nazi anniversary was not just pulled out of thin air. So, please close the wikopedia page and put up your Farmer's Almanac and step away from the keyboard. Thank you.
Do what is right and let the consequence follow
...and can't check wikipedia themselves:
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1912 - Prague Party Conference
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1918 - Free Committee for a German Workers' Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
1968 - Alexander Dub?ek comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses.
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
2006 - Expected activation of Sober worm
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For about the past month my mail server virus scanner has been getting a large number of hits from Sober, pretty much entirely from Hotmail. It's not an incredibly busy mail server, but the amount of Sober vs other viruses is hard to miss.
Some stats from the past week:
11/28 - 57 hits (2.7% of received emails)
11/29 - 81 hits (3.6%)
11/30 - 64 hits (2.9%)
12/01 - 128 hits (2.2%)
12/02 - 72 hits (3.6%)
It seemed to take a break over Thanksgiving, there were zero hits between 11/23 and 11/28, which is the longest span since I first started seeing a lot of them.
The first thing it does is that it tries to take over a beer hall in Munich.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Given his use of the worm to spread neo-nazi-type propaganda in the past, it's likely that he is indeed a neo-nazi or sympathetic to the cause. However, one thing I've determined from my analysis of the worm is that the download date isn't scheduled to occur until Friday, January 6. The logic in the code is actually "check if date > Jan 5", not "check if date == Jan 5". So then there might not even be a correlation OR a coincidence.
-Joe
Joe Stewart, GCIH
Senior Security Researcher
LURHQ http://www.lurhq.com/
> Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with > the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party
... He died of injuries from hitting a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California, at the age of 62. (The accident came just days after Michael Kennedy died in a skiing accident on December 31, 1997, in Colorado.)
5 january Nazi party? hmm. It is much worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 - January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor and politician whose career spanned over three decades.
"ITL is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the death of Sonny Bono: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the death of Sonny Bono who died of injuries from hitting a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe.""
But is even worse:
Jan 5, 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
Jan 5, 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
Jan 5, 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
Jan 5, 1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
So, "ITNO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the start of developing GNU and the Dreyfus Affair: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the death of Sonny Bono, the start of Richard Stallman's GNU project, Alfred Dreyfus' imprisonment and the 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit."
Now, in order to understand internet security you need to realize that everything is controlled by the GNU project made up of Free software supporters with help from the nazis. The conspiracy first started during 5th Jan in Devil's Island. They have been responsible for many events throughout history, including the death of Sonny Bono. Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified by posting articles. They want to imprison Dreyfus and copycat 9/11 using email worm Sober. In order to prepare for this, we all must listen to the hidden news. Since the media is controlled by Richard Stallman we should get our information from slashdot.
From strictly a design point of view, the Nazis were amazing. Everything the put out was sharp, crisp and direct marketing of one ideal. Iconically the nazi flag was an amazingly clean design (compare to America's flag that looks like it was made by committee... oh wait, it was.)
Actually, to further the theory of coinciding dates, now that I look at my notes, the logic in the worm is more specifically "start spreading after 68 days after October 29". October 29 is the birth date of Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda.
-Joe
Joe Stewart, GCIH
Senior Security Researcher
LURHQ http://www.lurhq.com/
Yeah - that'll be the day
one hint: READ the corresponding article (the man of the year one).
Its available online.
Just read it, and see why the GP is a load of crap.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
That's why it's said that January 5th is the 87th aniversary of the NAZIs. This worm already sent out millions of Nazi spam emails so it's probable that the worm doesn't give a fuck about Marlyn Manson's birthday.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
no one knows if you Yoda are.
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Who cares about the Nazi party? It's gonna strike 50 years to the day Elvis released Heartbreak Hotel!
Among neo-Nazis, "88" is a codeword for "Heil Hitler"
Among radio amateurs, "88" is a code word for "love and kisses". In communications, context is everything.
-=Maggie Leber=-