Social Engineering Variants: Sober Distribution

At one time, social engineering in malware meant, “claiming a dangerous email attachment contains pictures of a beautiful woman”. The criminals behind the Sober family of malware seem determined to expand this definition as much as possible, previously, Sober.N posed as an offer for soccer World Cup tickets and this month Sober.O has claimed to be a message from an old school friend. Some variants of Sober have been used to distribute neo-Nazi spam.