http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32649.html

Blaster-F suspect arrested in Romania
By John Leyden
Posted: 04/09/2003 at 06:57 GMT

Romanian police yesterday arrested a man on suspicion of releasing a variant of the prolific Blaster worm. It's the second arrest of a copycat author of the worm in the last week.

Dan Dumitru Ciobanu, 24, from the northern Romanian city of Iasi, is alleged to have created the relatively tame Blaster-F version of the worm.

Blaster-F, first spotted on September 1, shares the same functionality and active mechanisms as original Blaster worm. The only differences are a change of the virus filename into enbiei.exe, a change in target for the DDoS attack from windowsupdate.com to Iasi's Hydrotechnical University and the addition of a text string within the virus in Romanian criticising the University and one of its professors.

A few yeard breaking rocks might teach him and some of the others that this is not acceptable.

Virus costs alot of money... acording to the "Information Security Bulletin" site, then the Sobig virus caused more than $15 billion in damage:

http://www.chi-publishing.com/portal/index.php?id=643

Look at the profile: Young misuderstood male. No girlfriend. Loner. Usually fat or pimple-faced. Bright but naive. Bored. Vindictive. Bitter.

My God, we just described Mitnick again!

The secret is to put these punks in prison with Bubba. Forget the ankle bracelet and probation. HARD PRISON TIME! :ph34r: :ph34r:

Fuck, that just described half of most adult site's
target demographic...

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