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

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1. title: Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/02/cops-crowdstrike-disrupt-sality-botnet-by-poisoning-the-network-and-diverting-into-sinkholes/5293795 (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: International law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, have disrupted Sality, a 23-year-old peer-to-peer botnet used to deliver malware to more than 15,000 machines worldwide. The botnet has operated since 2003 and distributed all types of malicious code to victims, spanning credential theft, spam distribution, proxy services, network exploitation, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. For the past eight years, Sality’s primary payload has been… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:54:07 +0200 (alleges; supported) Source