A botnet running for 23 years with over 15,000 endpoints has finally been shut down by law enforcement and Crowdstrike

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• Crowdstrike and law enforcement disrupted Sality , a peer‑to‑peer botnet active since 2003
• Botnet spread malware and clipboard hijacker EggJagger , stealing $150K in cryptocurrency
• Operation sinkholed endpoints and removed payload URLs, coordinated with DOJ, FBI, Europol, and others

Security experts Crowdstrike, together with a handful of national and international law enforcement agencies, finally managed to disrupt Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that operated unabated for more than two decades.