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. …