FBI arrests 'stupid' Blaster.B suspect

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FBI arrests 'stupid' Blaster.B suspect
By Iain Thomson <01-09-2003>

A US teenager has been arrested under suspicion of creating the Blaster or LoveSan.B virus, and court papers reveal intriguing details about the origin of the Blaster worm.
Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, has admitted modifying the original Blaster worm using a text editor, adding a Trojan to allow backdoor access to infected computers and releasing it into the wild.

According to court papers, the original Blaster was created after a Chinese hacking collective called Xfocus reverse engineered the original Microsoft patch.

"With this arrest, we want to deliver a message to cyber-hackers here and around the world," said US Attorney John McKay in Seattle.

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But it seems that Parson is not the cyber-genius some US authorities are claiming.

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