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

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 Foundation. The operation cut Sality’s operator off from every infected machine still under their control. Sality first appeared in 2003 as a file-infecting virus, the kind that attaches itself to executable programs and spreads whenever an infecte

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