Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
Brief
The U. S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation.
The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from the U. S. , Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, in collaboration with private industry partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. To that