Neowin News Feed for: Sober

Sober worm cracked

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:12:26 +0000

Finnish security firm F-Secure has cracked a code used by the Soberworm, potentially allowing the company to block the worm from receivingupdates. Sober has mutated constantlysince October 2003, when the first... Read more...

Sober Worm Tops SophoLabs Threat List

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:11:04 +0000

A new variant of the pesky Sober worm led the top-10 list of viruses compiled by SophosLabs this May. The Sober-N worm, which was detected in early May, spread rapidly across about 40... Read more...

Sober worm variant makes the rounds

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 May 2005 14:43:54 +0000

A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been discovered and is spreading among consumer PC users. Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header... Read more...

New Sober Worm on the Loose

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:12:31 +0000

A new version of the Sober worm appeared on the Internet early Friday morning and already it is having quite a bit of success infecting users in Europe through the use of social engineering. Sober.J... Read more...

Sober Worm Crawls in New Version

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 23:49:45 +0000

Antivirus software companies warned customers about a new variant of the Sober e-mail worm, which has begun spreading on the Internet this week masquerading as a Microsoft software update. It is common for worm authors... Read more...

Sober worm causes headaches

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:46:43 +0000

A new virus threat called Sober could be causing a few headaches today, according to antivirus researchers. The Sober worm, spotted in the last 12 hours, is a traditional attachment-based piece of malware that uses... Read more...