Sality's P2P Network Turned Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads

Reported 02 Sep 2026 by otx · Severity: medium

On August 31, 2026, U.S., Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Romanian authorities, collaborating with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, successfully disrupted the Sality botnet through a peer-to-peer sinkhole operation. Active since 2003, Sality infects Windows executables and spre