New Sober worm is unleashed today
A new version of the Sober worm was unleashed last night, with the timing chosen to correspond with the founding of the German Nazi party and a major German political conference starting today.
There are no early reports of major problems, but firms have been warned to monitor the situation. A warning about the attack was issued by security software companies at the end of last year, after it was discovered that the previous version of Sober had been programmed to trigger new attacks on the internet.
Those under threat from the latest worm are users that did not patch their systems against the previous version of Sober.
Microsoft has issued an advisory about the latest version and has warned that another triggered Sober attack is set for two week’s time, and every two weeks after that.
