News report

# ZeuS Banking Trojan Resurfaces As Atmos Variant

Threatpost, April 12, 2016. Citadel successor: Atmos identified as a banking trojan built on the Citadel codebase, itself derived from ZeuS, active in the wild in 2016.

**Source type:** News report

**Published:** April 12, 2016

**Research grade:** S2

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** Threatpost

**Published:** April 12, 2016

**Source type:** News report

**Research grade:** Source grade S2

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://threatpost.com/zeus-banking-trojan-resurfaces-as-atmos-variant/117344/](https://threatpost.com/zeus-banking-trojan-resurfaces-as-atmos-variant/117344/)

**What it supports:** Citadel successor: Atmos identified as a banking trojan built on the Citadel codebase, itself derived from ZeuS, active in the wild in 2016

**Dataset id:** src\_threatpost\_atmos\_2016

## Research notes

- By Tom Spring.
- published\_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2016-04-12T17:20:13+00:00).
- Threatpost ceased publishing new articles but the archived article page remains live.

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## Cited by

### Later activity

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Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[Atmos (Citadel-derived banking trojan)](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/citadel-botnet-disruption)

Ecosystem successor, Citadel botnet disruption

Later outcome

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