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Monday, September 15, 2025

Blaster worm suspect arrested

Another suspect was arrested over the weekend in connection with the \Blaster"" computer worm. Prosecutors refused to release any information about the juvenile, who was arrested for intentionally causing damage to protected computers. 

 

 

 

Earlier this month, Jeffrey Lee Parson, a high school senior from Hopkins, Minn., pleaded innocent to damaging more than 7,000 computers by modifying a version of the worm that bombards Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. Web sites with e-mails. 

 

 

 

Case detectives said they have yet to determine who created the main version of the worm. 

 

 

 

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