CrowdStrike Disrupts Sality Botnet After More Than 20 Years
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The network that hijacked computers was used to steal cryptocurrencies, send spam, and launch denial-of-service attacks, among other things. US authorities and cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike took down the exceptionally resilient network by tricking it into severing its connection to its creator.
Russian cybercrime operation being dismantled after two decades, US officials and CrowdStrike say | #cybercrime | #infosec - National Cyber Security Consulting
LAS VEGAS, Sept 1 : A two-decade-old Russian hacking operation dubbed "Sality" is being dismantled, U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced on Tuesday. U.S. officials said they had seized the web domains hackers used to take over computers to send spam, carry out distributed denial-of-service operations or steal cryptocurrency, while CrowdStrike said it had cut […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!
After more than two decades of continuous operation, one of the longest-running and most insidious botnets in the history of the internet has been stripped of its control over infected machines. On August 31, 2026, CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team, in collaboration with the US Department of Justice, FBI, Europol, law enforcement agencies from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, and the Shadowserver Foundation, coordinated the The [...]
Considered invincible for more than two decades, the Sality botnet was finally dismantled by turning its greatest force against itself, its decentralized architecture.
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