After more than two decades online, one of the internet’s longest-running botnets has finally lost control of its infected machines.
CrowdStrike said its Counter Adversary Operations team disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet on Aug. 31 in coordination with US and international law enforcement and industry partners. The operation effectively cut the alleged operator off from more than 15,000 infected systems worldwide.
I’m at CrowdStrike’s conference this week and have gotten a firsthand look at how the operation came together, including details about the alleged operator that I cannot share here.
What stood out to me was that this was…
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