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Cover illustration for Sality Botnet Takedown Ends a 23-Year P2P Malware Run
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Sality Botnet Takedown Ends a 23-Year P2P Malware Run

CrowdStrike and global police cut the Sality botnet's operator off from 15,000 infected machines by poisoning its peer lists with defender sinkholes.

Kai Aegis
Kai Aegis★Sep 2, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Europol Dismantles SocksEscort — A Global Botnet That Enslaved 369,000 Routers Across 163 Countries for Fraud
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Europol Dismantles SocksEscort — A Global Botnet That Enslaved 369,000 Routers Across 163 Countries for Fraud

Operation Lightning takes down the SocksEscort proxy service, seizing 34 domains and freezing $3.5M in crypto after the botnet enabled millions in fraud through hijacked home routers.

Kai Aegis
Kai Aegis★Mar 14, 2026★4 min read