{"id":243494,"date":"2026-09-02T05:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/sality-botnet-infrastructure-dismantled-in-joint-global-takedown"},"modified":"2026-09-02T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:31:14","slug":"sality-botnet-infrastructure-dismantled-in-joint-global-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/sality-botnet-infrastructure-dismantled-in-joint-global-takedown","title":{"rendered":"Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sality-botnet-infrastructure-dismantled-in-joint-global-takedown2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this operation, supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/media-press\/newsroom\/news\/global-public-private-operation-disrupts-sality-botnet-active-for-two-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europol<\/a> and Eurojust, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, and DCIS seized Sality-linked domains in the United States, while authorities in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania seized additional Sality-linked domains hosted in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>CrowdStrike\u2019s Counter Adversary Operations team, in collaboration with international law enforcement and private industry partners, also dismantled the botnet\u2019s control channels in a peer-to-peer sinkhole operation that isolated infected machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. As part of this operation, supported by Europol and Eurojust, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, and DCIS seized Sality-linked domains in the United States, while authorities in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}