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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 2004-06-15
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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