ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AMONG HEADLINES OF NEW COMPUTER SPAMS
YEREVAN, MAY 23. ARINFO. Top Tech News reports Sophos company to have
detected new spams in the internet. The spams include headline
“Armenian Genocide Plagues Ankara 90 Years On,” among such as
“Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously,” “Dresden 1945” and
“Turkish Tabloid Enrages Germany with Nazi Comparisons” both in
English and German.
In the past several weeks, spam has developed a German accent and
computer experts said it once again drives home the need for computer
While extremely visible, the Sober worm is not as dangerous as it
could have been, said Tim Cranny, security architect for Senforce
Technologies. “Melissa and lovebug were also like this,” Cranny said.
“What makes these so visible is just how they spread themselves. This
was really a benign worm. It could’ve been a whole lot worse.” In
early May, the Sober-N worm was used to infect thousands of computers
by posing as a way to get tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
The infected computers now are being exploited by the Sober-Q Trojan
virus to send out masses of spam. The Sober computer worm now
accounts for more than 5 percent of all e- mail traffic worldwide,
according to computer security company.