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.""

Comments

Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis?

[neo]

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!

Je, personnellement...

[Stormwatch]

...accueillir nos nouveaux suzerains nazis.

No kidding

[paranode]

I mean, lots of stuff happened on January 5th.

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.

Re:No kidding

[Anonymous Coward]

Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.

Or maybe, just maybe, for a worm used to send nazi spam it has.

Re:Anniversary of Nazi Party... So what?

[trcooper]

Well, your thoughts are valid, the /. post and the linked article explain nothing about the Sober worm...

If you go here you will find that the Sober worm directs people to neo-nazi websites, and sends emails with subjects like "Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously" and "60 Years of Freedom: Who's Celebrating?"

Given just what /. had, I'd be more inclined to think that it coincided with Marilyn Manson's birthday. But the virus/worm is actually well known for spreading neo-nazi propaganda.

87th Anniversary Connection

[corellon13]

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.