{"id":2491,"date":"2013-06-07T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2013-06-07T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T02:26:00","slug":"fbi-seized-citadel-banking-trojan-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/fbi-seized-citadel-banking-trojan-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI seized Citadel banking Trojan servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a botnet that controlled millions of infected PCs, which was responsible for massive bank fraud.\u00a0Botnets are networks of computers infected with viruses that let them be controlled by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The outfit runs the Citadel Botnets and is believed to have stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts over the past 18 months.\u00a0Citadel is one of the <\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/theHackerNews_com?a=f2Q56ek9dXM:1GZlousj-8Q:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/theHackerNews_com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/theHackerNews_com?a=f2Q56ek9dXM:1GZlousj-8Q:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/theHackerNews_com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheHackersNews?a=f2Q56ek9dXM:xvxC_PgfGwQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheHackersNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheHackersNews\/~4\/f2Q56ek9dXM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Original news article at <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2013\/06\/download-Citadel-botnet-antivirus-account-hacking.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/<\/a> on June 06, 2013 at 10:43PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a botnet that controlled millions of infected PCs, which was responsible for massive bank fraud.\u00a0Botnets are networks of computers infected with viruses that let them be controlled by hackers. The outfit runs the Citadel Botnets and is believed to have stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/fbi-seized-citadel-banking-trojan-servers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FBI seized Citadel banking Trojan servers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-it-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-Eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}