Citadel (malware)
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Published: 2016-05-10 · Archived: 2026-04-05 14:25:45 UTC
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Citadel is a piece of massively-distributed malware based upon Zeus.
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 It targets credentials stored in password
managers such as Keepass, Password Safe and neXus Personal Security Client.
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By 2017 (it was first identified in 2011)[3] Citadel had infected about 11 million computers worldwide and had
caused over $500 million in losses.[4]
On March 20, 2017, having been extradited from Norway to the United States, a Russian computer science
professional Mark Vartanyan pleaded guilty to a computer fraud charge for his part in developing the Control
Panel for Citadel. In July 2017, he was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.
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Conficker
Command and control (malware)
Gameover ZeuS, the successor to ZeuS
Operation Tovar
Timeline of computer viruses and worms
Tiny Banker Trojan
Torpig
Zeus (malware)
Zombie (computer science)
1. ^ Segura, Jérôme (5 November 2012). "Citadel: a cyber-criminal's ultimate weapon?". Malwarebytes
Labs.
2. ^ "Cybercriminals Use Citadel to Compromise Password Management and Authentication Solutions".
securityintelligence.com. 19 November 2014.
3. ^ "Citadel Banking Malware Is Evolving and Spreading Rapidly, Researchers Warn". PCWorld.
4. ^ "Russian sentenced in U.S. to five years prison for 'Citadel' malware". Reuters. 19 July 2017.
5. ^ "Russian Citizen who Helped Develop the "Citadel" Malware Toolkit is Sentenced". www.justice.gov. 20
July 2017.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_(malware)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_(malware)
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