Etiket: MessageLabs

The spread of the latest SoBig computer worm variant, called SoBig.F, now is being called the fastest outbreak ever. The worm marks the continuation of a recent onslaught of attacks that included previous worms Nachi and Blaster. Security experts said SoBig.F has spread rapidly across North America, Europe and Asia because users were duped by…

Federal officials reportedly have closed in on an 18-year-old man believed to be the author of a variant of the Blaster worm, which affected nearly half a million computers earlier this month. An announcement of the suspect’s arrest was expected Friday in Seattle, Washington, near the headquarters of Microsoft, whose Windows operating system was the…

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…