Sober variant has mysterious agenda for Nazi anniversary


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December 08, 2005

Sober variant has mysterious agenda for Nazi anniversary

Security vendors have discovered a variant of the Sober worm which they say is programmed to download an unknown piece of code from various Internet addresses early next month, launching a potential barrage of digital traffic.

iDefense Inc. said it broke the encrypted code in a Sober variant discovered last month and found that it is designed to download the unknown code from various Web addresses on Jan. 5, 2006. Millions of 'zombie' computers may already be infected with the variant, the company said.

The date happens to coincide with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi Party. The release of worms has been tied to political events in the past, iDefense noted.

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure Corp., said the worm will try to download the mystery code from 14 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) at four different ISPs (Internet service providers). F-Secure has contacted those ISPs, all in Austria and Germany, and requested that the addresses be blocked before the trigger date. At least one of them has responded positively, he said.

The writer of the worm doesn't seem interested in money, Hypponen said. The code may end up downloading propaganda to a user's computer, or it may distribute further malicious code which then sends out messages to other computers, clogging the Internet.

The Sober worm has been the most prevalent nuisance of the year. It has appeared in more than 30 variants since it was first found in October 2003, iDefense said. It's believed to have been created in Germany, and also uses appears in the German language.

Source: security.itworld.com

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