Virus with which the U.S. has 110 million stolen data cards created Russian - Moskovsky Komsomolets

author virus with which the data were stolen 110 million credit cards in the U.S. is supposedly 17-year-old young man from St. Petersburg.

To such conclusion experts of the company IntelCrawler, dealing with computer security. According to them, the author of the virus, which is considered “well-known expert” on the black market, he is not involved in cyber attacks, but he has sold more than 60 versions of malware cybercriminals from various countries, including in Eastern Europe.

malicious code that is supposedly used in the attack on the trade network Target, originally called KAPTOHA, and then became known as BlackPOS. Virus was coined in 2013, the first reports of its use have appeared in the spring of last year. Earlier it was reported that the market appears KAPTOHA hackers from June.

As written English-language media, the virus because of which were stolen in the U.S. data 110 million credit cards, was “written partly in Russian.” Russian words in programming languages, as a rule, are not used, so the Russian is likely to have been written comments inserted into the program code.