Target Hackers Wrote Partly in Russian, Displayed High Skill, Report Finds

[tfcrew]

Parts of the malicious computer code used against Target's credit-card readers had been on the Internet's black market since last spring and were partly written in Russian, people familiar with the report said. Both details suggest the attack may have ties to organized crime in the former Soviet Union, former U.S. officials said.

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[Daveman]

Now that's interesting.  Which programming languages use Russian?  I wonder exactly what they are talking about with being "coded in Russian".   Even with interacting with a few fellow Ukrainian/Russian programmer geeks, their versions of the languages that I saw, e.g., c/c++, java, c#, sql, php, asp/asp.net, were all 'english keyword' languages just like here. 

The article doesn't mention anything about the specifics just something about parts being coded in Russian.  Anyone know more about this?

[tfcrew]

The malicious computer program used against Target was revealed in a government report released yesterday.
Officials are calling the cyber attack operation “Kaptoxa,” a Russian word that comes from a piece of code in the malware. Investigators say the malware used in the recent breach was partly written in Russian, though it’s unclear whether the attack originated in Russia.
Winnie O’Kelley, an editor for Bloomberg News, speaks with Here & Now’s Robin Young about this recent development in the Target breach.

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/01/17/malware-target-breach