Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI | Tech News on ZDNet
There is no Easter Bunny, and that’s not a real Paris Hilton video in your e-mail box. Nor is the FBI likely to be e-mailing you to ask you questions about visiting illegal Web sites.
A new variant of the Sober worm made the network rounds Tuesday, attempting to entice people into clicking on attachments purporting to be threats from the law enforcement agency or videos clips of the hotel heiress and her reality TV co-star Nicole Richie.
Antivirus companies said the worm gained some traction over the weekend and on Monday. It’s a minor modification of the “Sober” virus that has flared up several times over the past year. But this latest variant, graded as a medium-level threat, appeared to be trailing off as security providers have responded.
I have already gotten two of these today one says it is from admin@cia.gov and reads like this: “Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505
++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time”
It has a zipped file attached called list.zip. Never open files from someone you don’t know and only open files from people you do know after you have check to see if they really sent it.
