Tens of thousands of users woke up today to find German hate propoganda spam in their inbox. Piggybacking on the recent increase in activity of the Sober worm, the German hate spam is thought to take advantage of the trail left by the Sober worm, but is not a worm itself. Instead it uses PCs infected with the Sober worm to relay its hateful message, both in German and English.

Dubbed Sober-Q, experts say that the spam was sent over the weekend by someone with an axe to grind - or a cause to champion, depending on how you see it - but probably not for any financial gain. In other words, the spammer turned the spamming infrastucture created by the Sober worm into his or her own personal soapbox, rather than sending spam advertising a product.

Said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of McAfee’s virus research lab, “It is a…

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