US and European authorities disrupt Sality botnet after 23 years
US and European law enforcement agencies have disrupted the long-running Sality malware operation, cutting its operators off from more than 15,000 infected computers worldwide. The coordinated action, carried out on August 31, involved the US Department of Justice, FBI, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), CrowdStrike, the Shadowserver Foundation, and Europol. CrowdStrike’s Counter Adversary Operations team … The post US and European authorities disrupt Sality botnet after 23 years appeared first on CyberInsider.
US and European authorities successfully disrupted the Sality botnet after 23 years, cutting off its operators from over 15,000 infected computers worldwide by exploiting a weakness in its peer-management protocol.
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