{"id":1034,"date":"2014-02-13T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2014-02-13T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:18:01","slug":"krebsonsecurity-reports-that-the-network-credentials-of-fazio-mechanical-were-stolen-with-by-a-password-stealing-malware-called-citadel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/13\/krebsonsecurity-reports-that-the-network-credentials-of-fazio-mechanical-were-stolen-with-by-a-password-stealing-malware-called-citadel\/","title":{"rendered":"KrebsOnSecurity reports that the network credentials of Fazio Mechanical were stolen with by a password-stealing malware called Citadel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2014\/02\/email-attack-on-vendor-set-up-breach-at-target\/\">KrebsOnSecurity<\/a> reports that the network credentials of <strong>Fazio Mechanical<\/strong> were stolen with by a password-stealing malware called <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/?s=citadel&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">Citadel<\/a>. This is what I feared. Recently I spend a lot of time working through some problems updating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafeeasap.com\/MarketingContent\/default.aspx\">McAfee ASAP<\/a> because I was pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/test-procedures\/award\/2013\/\">sure<\/a> it had a better malware protection than Microsoft Security Essentials. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The breach at <strong>Target Corp.<\/strong> that exposed credit card and personal data on more than 110 million consumers appears to have begun with a malware-laced email phishing attack sent to employees at an HVAC firm that did business with the nationwide retailer, according to sources close to the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since Citadel is not a new threat I assume it must be a modified version that was not detected by the virus\/malware checking software. I wonder if the current versions of the top virus checking software catches it now. My desktop version of Outlook is twice protected via McAfee&#8217;s SaaS. My private email is protected by Yahoo(Symantec). Hmm&#8230; I wonder what Fazio was using?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KrebsOnSecurity reports that the network credentials of Fazio Mechanical were stolen with by a password-stealing malware called Citadel. This is what I feared. Recently I spend a lot of time working through some problems updating McAfee ASAP because I was pretty sure it had a better malware protection than Microsoft Security Essentials. The breach at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/13\/krebsonsecurity-reports-that-the-network-credentials-of-fazio-mechanical-were-stolen-with-by-a-password-stealing-malware-called-citadel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KrebsOnSecurity reports that the network credentials of Fazio Mechanical were stolen with by a password-stealing malware called Citadel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virusspyware","tag-virusspywaremalware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-gG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}