International Operation Disrupts Sality P2P Botnet

September 2, 2026 · 6:56 am 6 sources

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• Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown
  BleepingComputer · September 2, 2026 08:00
  International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. [...]
• 23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted
  SecurityWeek · September 2, 2026 08:38
  The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown. The post 23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted appeared first on SecurityWeek .
• Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run
  Help Net Security · September 2, 2026 08:56
  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…
• Sality, one of the longest-running botnets, finally gets disrupted
  The Record by Recorded Future News · September 2, 2026 12:15
  U.S. and European authorities disrupted the long-running botnet Sality, turning the malware’s peer-to-peer architecture against itself to cut thousands of infected computers off from operators.
• International Operation Disrupts Sality P2P Botnet
  Infosecurity Magazine · September 3, 2026 08:30
  US-led action sinkholes machines caught up in Sality botnet

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• Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
  The Hacker News · September 2, 2026 06:56
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, in…