Citadel (malware)

Citadel is a piece of massively-distributed malware based upon Zeus.

[1] It targets credentials stored in password managers such as Keepass, Password Safe and neXus Personal Security Client.

[2] 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.