Doubts Raised Over ID Of Target Malware Author
A California cybersecurity firm's assertion that a Russian teenager authored the malware behind the massive Target data breach during the holidays was disputed Sunday by the Internet security blogger who broke the Target story.
IntelCrawler, based in Los Angeles, said late Friday that a teenager "close" to 17 years old authored the malicious software and reportedly sold it for about $2,000 to dozens of cybercriminals in Eastern Europe and other countries.
Brian Krebs, a widely followed Internet security blogger and former Washington Post reporter, disputed that information in an interview and on Twitter.
"We don't think we are wrong," IntelCrawler president Dan Clements responded Sunday.
While IntelCrawler says the teen allegedly authored the malware, it doesn't allege that he perpetrated the breach.
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