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17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon

The age of the BlackPOS malware author is close to 17 years old and the first sample of it was created in March 2013. The first C&C server of BlackPOS was installed on ree4.7ci.ru, which was the personal host of its author with nickname ree[4] The bad actor was pretty opened for trading this malware for 2 000 USD or by receiving 50% from selling of all intercepted credit cards by his customer through Liberty Reserve.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/21337/cyber-crime/blackpos-malware.html

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