By Isaac • September 2, 2026 11:22 am •
One of the internet’s longest-running botnets has finally lost its command channel, but the infected computers it left behind are not magically clean.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a multinational operation that disrupted Sality infrastructure in the United States and Europe. American authorities seized Sality-linked domains, while partners in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania acted against additional infrastructure.
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The operation brought together the FBI, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, CrowdStrike, the Shadowserver Foundation, Europol, Eurojust and national law-enforcement agencies. DOJ said the partnership advanced the first pillar of President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: shaping adversary behavior by degrading malicious infrastructure.
Sality has been active since 2003. Its durability came from a peer-to-peer design that allowed
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