German hate mail spam attack stuns experts

German hate mail spam attack stuns experts
Jan Libbenga, The Register 2004-06-11

Mailboxes in Germany and the Netherlands were flooded yesterday with spam containing German right-wing propaganda. Spammers used the Sober.G virus - a mass mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses harvested from infected computers - to spread their messages as widely as possible.

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-14
Anonymous

They didn't hit only Germany and the Netherlands. I received a big ball of this stuff here in Indiana, US. I read German just well enough to understand that it was nothing I cared to read about, and I trashed the lot....

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-15
Anonymous

The ISC ( http://isc.sans.org ) captures a Sober variant which is responsible for this spam. The virus includes the text for all messages, so it does not require central control....

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Why the "right-wing" designation? 2004-06-15
Anonymous

Since when is hate speech considered to be "right-wing"?...

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-15
Anonymous

So, Germans are forced to use spam to speak

their mind about foreigners. Says something

about the freedom of speech in Germany (and possibly European Union)....

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-15
Anonymous

It's rather the opposite - western european men flood eastern europe looking for females.

After looking at women on both sides of the Iron Curtain it is quite easy to understand why they do it, but then stop whining about the immigration !...

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-15
Anonymous

I in France also had this flood

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

We've gotten a bunch of it here in LA too....

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German hate mail spam attack stuns experts 2004-06-22
Anonymous

I received about 4000+ of these mails on my catch all address....

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