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Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes

  • Jessica Lyons--Theregister.com
  • published date: 2026-09-01 23:54:07 UTC

23-year-old botnet down

International law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, have disrupted Sality, a 23-year-old peer-to-peer botnet used to deliver malware to more than 15,000 mach… [+2531 chars]