‘Citadel’ Trojan Touts Trouble-Ticket System
Summary: The developers of Citadel, a ZeuS Trojan variant advertised on members-only hacker forums, are marketing it as a software-as-a-service product with a built-in trouble-ticket and feature-voting system called the Citadel CRM Store. The basic bot builder and botnet administration panel sells for $2,399 plus $125 monthly rent, with add-ons including a $395 module that automatically updates the malware to evade the latest antivirus signatures at $15 per update, and the malware shuts itself down on machines using Russian or Ukrainian keyboards.
Bottom line: A $2,399 product with paid support, bug tracking, and customer-driven feature voting turns malware development into a sustained business, and the $15-per-update evasion module means a botnet can be refreshed faster than signature-based defenses are typically distributed.
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