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Sober worm lures football fans with 'free tickets'

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New variant pretends to be FIFA communiqué offering free 2006 World Cup tickets

A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool people into executing its payload by pretending to be an email from football world governing body FIFA offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

The latest Sober worm, which operates in a similar fashion to others of its kind, uses various email subject headers to try to entice people into opening its attachment. The virus then harvests email addresses from the victim and directs a barrage of spam to those addresses. However, the worm avoids sending messages to companies involved in the antivirus and security industry.

Antivirus firm Trend Micro has highlighted the worm's use of social engineering to spread and rated it a "medium risk".

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