A photo of the 17-year-old alleged Target credit card hacker, who has
ties to St. Petersburg, Russia. New York Daily News. (link below)
Screenshot allegedly implicating the
17-year-old programmer as the hacker behind the program that led to security
breaches at Target at Neiman Marcus. New
York Daily News.
"17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon"
"17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon"
The massive data breach
at Target during the 2013 holiday shopping season which the retailer now admits
affected 70 million customers used an inexpensive "off the shelf"
malware known as BlackPOS. The same malware may have also been involved in the
Neiman Marcus attack.
Security researchers
from IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company, announced
that the age of BlackPOS malware author is close to 17 years old and the first
sample of it was created in March 2013. The first report on this malware was done
in the beginning of spring by Andrew Komarov, IntelCrawler CEO, when he was
working in another forensics company.
Intel Crawler
Beth Stebner. New York Daily News.
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