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

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 …

[Clausewitz4.1]

Ethereum C2

Botnet owners adding Ethereum C2 in 3,2,1…

[Guy de Loimbard]

That's a quick take down

23 years.

Is that a record?

[Anonymous Coward]

Network Resiliance

"The botnet has operated since 2003 and distributed ..."

I wish our network had that much resiliance!

:-)

[retiredFool]

Re: Network Resiliance

And ran on a budget of only 150K for all that time. If their primary payload was eggjagger, and the estimate is 150K of "winnings", fairly efficient operation. Something sounds amiss.