ZDNet reports that German residents have been subjected to a deluge of racist emails, infected with the Sober. G virus.
The email deluge started just after 2 a.m. on Thursday morning in Germany. The majority of emails came from a computer at the University of Rostock and have been traced to the IP address of one student, although there is no indication so far that any employee or student of Rostock University was involved.
This is thought to be the first time that right-wing extremists have used wide-scale spamming to reach their audience. The emails included stories about the alleged criminality of foreigners and their abuse of the German health and social welfare system, which has led to suggestions that the European elections may have been the trigger for the spam attack.
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