https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Sality-Botnet-taken-down/m-p/2058226#M99737 <P>If this has been known to be infecting windows system files since 2003, you would have thought that with all the Windows upgrades since "Windows Millennium" and "Windows XP", that Microsoft would have been done sooner to improve security.</P> Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:10:39 GMT ExForce9 2026-09-12T15:10:39Z https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Sality-Botnet-taken-down/m-p/2057443#M99710 <P>Interesting...</P> <P><STRONG>Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes</STRONG></P> <P><A href="https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/02/cops-crowdstrike-disrupt-sality-botnet-by-poisoning-the-network-and-diverting-into-sinkholes/5293795" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/02/cops-crowdstrike-disrupt-sality-botnet-by-poisoning-the-network-and-diverting-into-sinkholes/5293795</A></P> <P><EM>23-year-old botnet down</EM></P> <P>"<EM>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.</EM>"</P> <P>See also:</P> <P><STRONG>Russian cybercrime operation being dismantled after two decades, US officials and CrowdStrike say</STRONG></P> <P><A href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/russian-cybercrime-operation-being-dismantled-after-two-decades-us-officials-and-crowdstrike-say/ar-AA2bnEzL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/russian-cybercrime-operation-being-dismantled-after-two-decades-us-officials-and-crowdstrike-say/ar-AA2bnEzL</A></P> <P><A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sality</A></P> Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:27:09 GMT https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Sality-Botnet-taken-down/m-p/2057443#M99710 pvmb 2026-09-02T08:27:09Z https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Sality-Botnet-taken-down/m-p/2058226#M99737 <P>If this has been known to be infecting windows system files since 2003, you would have thought that with all the Windows upgrades since "Windows Millennium" and "Windows XP", that Microsoft would have been done sooner to improve security.</P> Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:10:39 GMT https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Sality-Botnet-taken-down/m-p/2058226#M99737 ExForce9 2026-09-12T15:10:39Z