Last week, cybersecurity firm IntelCrawler named 17-year-old Russian “Sergey Taraspov” as the creator of the BlackPOS Malware used in the Target.
After further investigation, the company states in its report that 23-year-old Russian hacker “Rinat Shibaev” is the original author of this malware and Sergey is a member of the technical support team.
In an interview with Russian news channel LifeNews, Shibaev has admitted to developing the BlackPOS (also referred to as Kaptoxa) malware.
The hacker says he immediately took the available program and developed it with additional features.
He allegedly received help developing the malware from an unknown person he met online. However, he said he doesn't even know what country the person lives in.
The hacker also said that he created the app to sell it to others, not to use it himself.
