Charlotte Alter has a
Time article about another kid hacker, this one in Russia:
The malware used to hack into Target’s credit card system may have been written by a seventeen-year old Russian teen, although investigators don’t think the programmer was involved in the actual security breach that may have also affected high-end retailer Neiman Marcus.
Los Angeles, California-based software intelligence company IntelCrawler reports the data breach was caused by an “off-the-shelf” malware called BlackPOS, and that the teenager who originally invented BlackPOS likely was not the perpetrator in the theft. The findings come from a joint investigation conducted by the Secret Service and iSIGHT Partners, a cyber intelligence group. Credit card and other personal information for seventy million customers was compromised in the Target hack, though it’s unclear if the same malware was to blame for a smaller-scale attack on Neiman Marcus.
IntelCrawler CEO Andrew Komarov posed as a cybercriminal and chatted with the teen, and said the hacker told him he would sell him the malware for two thousand dollars or fifty percent of all intercepted credit cards.
Rico says when are we going to start 'hacking' off thumbs and solve this problem?
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