USATODAY: The malware behind data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus during the holiday shopping season came from a 17-year-old Russian national, according to published reports over the weekend…
An Intelcrawler blog post late Friday said the teenager, who is from St. Petersburg, wrote the programming code that enabled personal information, including credit card data, emails and home addresses to be obtained from millions of shoppers at Target and Neiman Marcus in late December.
He allegedly sold the malware, dubbed BlackPOS, according to the published reports, to cybercriminals in eastern Europe, who have not been identified. Intelcrawler CEO Andrew Komarov said the software enabled the identity thieves to remotely hack into the retailers’ electronic cash registers and obtain the personal information of shoppers… (more)
