FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect, 18-year-old Jeffrey Lee Parson

August 30th, 2003 by Loren | No Comments

FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect | CNET News.com

The 18 year old Genius, Jeffrey Lee Parson, was arrested by the FBI yesterday- accused of constructing the MSBlaster Virus.

Federal law enforcement officials confirmed on Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this year.

U.S. Attorney John McKay of Seattle said 18-year-old Jeffrey Lee Parson of Minneapolis was arrested and charged with one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer.

Parson allegedly created MSBlast.B, a minor variation that differed from the original worm mainly in that two files had been renamed–one with Parson’s screen name, “teekid”–and a couple of profane messages aimed at Microsoft and Bill Gates had been added. The B variant achieved only modest distribution in comparison to the original worm and the recent D variant.

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