Global public-private operation disrupts Sality botnet active for two decades

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An international operation supported by Europol has disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, a long-running criminal infrastructure used to distribute malicious payloads to thousands of infected computers worldwide.The coordinated action, carried out on 31 August 2026 and led by the US authorities, targeted a botnet believed to have been operating for more than two decades. At its peak, the botnet…

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Article Link: Global public-private operation disrupts Sality botnet active for two decades – Peer-to-peer botnet linked to more than 11 million infected IP addresses worldwide taken down | Europol