17-Year Old-Engineered Target "Super Hack" That Compromised 110 Million Target Customers: Teen Is Russian - Says Security Firm

"Target in Mansfield (Ontario), Ohio" (Photo by Nicholas Eckhart)

A Los Angeles security company has named a second individual living in Eastern Europe whom they suspect coded malicious software that was modified and used against Target.

The information comes from an analysis of “cyberprints,” or a collection of data and postings on underground password-protected forums where stolen card data and malware are sold, said Dan Clements, IntelCrawler’s president, in a phone interview Monday.

IntelCrawler named a 17-year-old Russian teenager on Friday it suspects created the Kaptoxa malware, also known as BlackPOS, which intercepts unencrypted payment card details just after a card is swiped at a point-of-sale terminal.

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On Monday, it revised the post and named a second individual. Clements said the revised post reflects new information that indicates the two individuals used the same nickname, “ree4,” in forum postings dating back to March 2013.

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