Government, industry partner to shut down long-running Sality botnet
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Government, industry partner to shut down long-running Sality botnet
A nonprofit group is now working to contact the botnet’s victims.
International effort shuts down long-running Sality botnet
Law-enforcement agencies in the US and Eastern Europe along with cyber security firm CrowdStrike have taken down a 23-year-old Russia-based botnet. Authorities from the US Justice Department, the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service seized US-based domain names belonging to the Sality botnet, while CrowdStrike analysts worked with the agencies to sever infected computers […]
US Just Took Down a 20-Year-Old Russian-Linked Cybercrime Operation — CrowdStrike Helps Disrupt Sality Botnet Behind Years of Attacks | #cybercrime | #infosec - National Cyber Security Consulting
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. A more than 20-year-old Russian cybercrime operation known as Sality is being dismantled by U.S. law enforcement agencies in collaboration with cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the Department of Justice said. On Monday, CrowdStrike, in collaboration with the […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!
For two and a half decades, a network of infected computers distributed spam, executed denial of service attacks and stole cryptocurrencies. No one stopped it. Sality, the Russian cybercrime operation active since 2003, survived longer than the iPhone, than Facebook and that most security companies now working to dismantle it.... Continue reading »The news The FBI and CrowdStrike have dismantled Sality, the 23-year-old Russian botnet, using inte…
The Malware That Hijacked Crypto Payments for 8 Years
CrowdStrike and federal authorities dismantled Sality, a botnet that spent eight years swapping copied wallet addresses for the attacker's, so victims unknowingly sent crypto to a stranger. The fix is simple: check the first and last characters of any address after you paste it. CoinDesk's Jennifer...
A network of infected machines active since 2003 has just been cut off from its operator. The US Department of Justice, the FBI, CrowdStrike, Shadowserver Foundation and several European services have conducted a coordinated operation against Sality, a family of malware known to steal cryptocurrency, distribute ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (…
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