FBI and CrowdStrike Disrupt 20-Year-Old Sality Botnet Controlling 15,000+ Infected Systems
Brief
The Department of Justice has confirmed a coordinated international takedown of the Sality botnet, a peer-to-peer malware network that has plagued victims worldwide since 2003.
The operation spanned the United States, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, bringing together federal law enforcement and private-sector cybersecurity firms to dismantle infrastructure that had quietly powered cryptocurrency theft and cyberattacks for more than two decades.
FBI and CrowdStrike Disrupt Sality Botnet After 20 Years
Key to the disruption, as confirmed by the U. S. Department of Justice announcement , was the close cooperation between the DOJ, FBI, the Department of Defense’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), and private industry partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation.