Fringe RW'ers use worms to spread propaganda

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Continuing my focus on Far Right terrorism. Why isn't the media telling us about this stuff?

"A Sober mass mailing worm spread hateful Neo-Nazi propaganda to inboxes over the weekend.

Sober.q uses both German and English-language messages to direct recipients to Web sites with right-wing German nationalistic content, according to an advisory from e-mail security company MX Logic. One of the URLs points to the Web site of the right-wing German NPD party, XX Logic said, according to IDG News Service. "Spam has been traditionally regarded as annoying messages that promote Viagra, porn and low cost mortgages," said Scott Chasin, CTO of MX Logic. "But for the past year we have seen a trend in which worm authors are using spam not to hawk goods, but as a tool for political propaganda."

The security firm said that it had seen over 125,000 instances of Sober.q overnight Saturday and into Sunday, and labelled it as a high severity threat. The variant is downloaded by computers already infected by the Sober.p worm which began circulating earlier this month, MX Logic said. The virus writers ap-pear to have remote control over the Sober.p infected machines, giving them a network from which to launch future spam and denial of service attacks, it added.

The latest sober variant is one of a relatively new type of "propaganda spam," meant to spread political messages rather than sell a product or service, MX Logic said. Circulation of the worm coincides with ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and examples of subject lines it sends include "Dresden 1945" and "Du wirst zum Sklaven gemacht!!!" ("You are made slaves!!!"), according to MX Logic."

http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/001396.html

Imagine if Al Qaeda sent worms that sent propaganda through the Internet, you know the media would have a field day with it ("Al Qaeda attacking our computers?", "Is the Internet safe from Islamofascism?", "Al Qaeda using net to broadcast propaganda, should we shut it down?").

[aquart]

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Seems right for them, somehow.