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Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run

  • Sinisa Markovic--Help Net Security
  • published date: 2026-09-02 08:56:24 UTC

Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint operation by international law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundat…

Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint operation by international law enforcement age… [+4036 chars]