NeonWizard Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 Mailboxes in Germany and the Netherlands were flooded yesterday with spam containing German right-wing propaganda. Spammers used the Sober.G virus - a mass mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses harvested from infected computers - to spread their messages as widely as possible. Analysts think the spammers may have worked in tandem with virus programmers to hijack PCs and use addresses found there to build large distribution lists. This is believed to be the first time that right wing extremists have used spamming systematically to reach a broad audience. The sheer size of the operation stunned many experts. Read Article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 I'm surprised that this sort of thing has not been done before. Email is an almost perfect propaganda method even without the use of malware - a contract with one of the large spammers would achieve much the same result without, possibly, quite so much of the negative reaction that using a virus or worm would do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 Sick, sick, sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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