Romanian student arrested over Blaster-F

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
It has been reported that a 24 year old student was arrested earlier this week for authoring another variant of the Blaster Internet worm. Dan Dumitru Ciobanu was nabbed after Romanian autorities traced the Blaster-F worm back to him with the help of Softwin researchers.
As with the arrest of Minnesota teenager Jeffrey Parson on Friday, Ciobanu's decision to use his online nickname, enbiei, for the virus file was integral to his capture, Softwin said.

Ciobanu's version of Blaster also included a caustic message, written in Romanian, in the body of the worm that named a local university, the Hydrotechnical University in Iasi, as well as one of his teachers, Softwin said.

As with the Blaster-B variant created by Parson, Blaster-F is a modest alteration of the original Blaster worm. Ciobanu's variant does not alter the worm's basic functionality and spreading mechanisms. Also like the Blaster-B variant, that similarity made the F variant less successful at spreading, the company said.

The full report:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/03/HNromaniannabbed_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/03/HNromaniannabbed_1.html
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