Authorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant. The U.S. arrest and European investigation involve copycat versions of the original Blaster worm, which pounced on hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows PCs last month.
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Authorities Investigate Romanian Virus Writer
Posted by: Jay Lyman September 4, 2003 02:05 PMAuthorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant. The U.S. arrest and European investigation involve copycat versions of the original Blaster worm, which pounced on hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows PCs last month.