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Russian Cybercrime Operation Being Dismantled After Two Decades, US Officials and CrowdStrike Say
CrowdStrike said the peer-to-peer malware had infected more than 15,000 machines worldwide and stolen at least $150,000 in cryptocurrency.
- On Tuesday, U.S. law enforcement officials and CrowdStrike announced the dismantling of Sality, a 23-year-old Russian hacking operation that utilized a peer-to-peer botnet to deliver malware and steal cryptocurrency worldwide.
- First spotted in 2003, Sality operated as a resilient peer-to-peer network for over two decades, infecting more than 15,000 machines to facilitate spam, DDoS attacks, and cryptocurrency theft via the EggJagger tool.
- CrowdStrike and international law enforcement disrupted the botnet on Monday by executing a peer-to-peer sinkhole operation, seeding the network with bogus data that tricked compromised machines into severing connections from their creator.
- The U.S. Justice Department, FBI, and European law enforcement partners seized Sality-linked web domains, while the Shadowserver Foundation works with Computer Security Incident Response Teams to aid victim notification and remediation.
- While the takedown isolated infected machines, cybersecurity experts warn the unidentified creator could attempt to rebuild the botnet, emphasizing that Sality remains a dangerous vector for future cyber-enabled attacks.
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Russian cybercrime operation being dismantled after two decades
US officials and CrowdStrike say a long-running Russian cybercrime operation known as Sality is being dismantled after roughly 20 years of activity. The case points to coordinated action between law enforcement and private-sector cybersecurity...
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsCops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes
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