A botnet running for 23 years with over 15,000 endpoints has finally been shut down by CrowdStrike

Crowdstrike and friends sinkholed thousands of Sality's endpoints rendering the botnet useless.
Hackread

Sality Botnet Linked to 11 Million IPs Disrupted After 23 Years

US and European authorities disrupted the long-running Sality botnet, using P2P sinkholing to cut infected Windows systems ...

Government, industry partner to shut down long-running Sality botnet

The Justice Department's seal and logo are seen at DOJ headquarters on May 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. U.S. law-enforcement ...

US just took down a 20-year-old Russian-linked cybercrime operation — CrowdStrike helps disrupt Sality botnet behind years of attacks

A more than 20-year-old Russian cybercrime operation known as Sality is being dismantled by U.S. law enforcement agencies in ...

Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes

International law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, have disrupted Sality, a ...
Blockonomi

Russian Crypto-Stealing Botnet Sality Shut Down After Two-Decade Run

CrowdStrike and DOJ shut down Sality, a Russian botnet that used clipboard hijacking to steal $150K in crypto over 8 years, ...
Hackread

US Disrupts Global Botnet Used by China-Linked QTFY Hackers

The FBI and DOJ disrupted a global botnet used by QTFY to compromise IoT devices and conceal attacks against US government ...

Fewer attacks, more force: Link11's European Cyber Report finds new DDoS records for the first half of 2026

Super-botnets and hijacked cloud servers drive new bandwidth and packet-rate records as international law-enforcement ...
Yahoo Finance

Arelion's 2026 DDoS report shows Aisuru botnet responsible for nearly one third of DDoS attacks

STOCKHOLM, July 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Arelion today announced the findings of its latest DDoS threat landscape report, providing insights on global Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) trends using ...