Junior from St. Petersburg created a virus, stole 110 million in U.S. banknotes - BFM.Ru

from St. Petersburg Junior supposedly is the author of the virus stole data 110 million credit cards in the U.S., according to The Washington Post.

According to the publication, experts from the company IntelCrawler, dealing with computer security, analyzing the virus believe that 17-year-old programmer from St. Petersburg, wrote the code for the malware. Virus stole about 110 million credit cards in the U.S.. Previously reported 70 million credit cards, for which information was stolen.

Employees believe that criminals from various countries have acquired more than 60 versions of the virus program. Programmers believe that the Russian teenager only developed the program, committing cyber attacks, he did not take part. It should be noted that the proposed developer of the virus, known to those skilled in computer security, as previously created programs for the black market.

Previously, experts report that found the Russian trace in the program – the virus code has been partially written in Russian. They suggest that it is this program called KAPTOXA, and then renamed BlackPOS, was used in the attack on a major network in the U.S. Target stores. The company reported the theft of credit card data customers at the end of December 2013. Cybercriminals stole personal data of customers, as well as encrypted PIN-codes.