A variant of the Sober worm disguised as an email from the intelligence agencies threatens computers.
By Priya Ganapati
November 22, 2005
The Sober email worm that first struck in 2003 has made another comeback through a variant disguised as an email from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Central Intelligence Agency, becoming one of the fastest-spreading security threats in the last 24 hours, security software companies said Tuesday.
The worm is not considered highly dangerous as it does not seek to steal personal or financial information, but it can make infected computers susceptible to future viruses, which could potentially be more worrisome.
The first incidence of the latest Sober variant was detected Monday, said Patrick Hinojosa, chief technical officer of Panda Software, a Spanish security software company.
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