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CrowdStrike Helps Dismantle Long-Running Sality Botnet With Bogus Data

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U.S. law enforcement and cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike say a two-decade Russian botnet known as Sality is being dismantled. Officials report they seized web domains used to compromise computers for spam, DDoS, and cryptocurrency theft. CrowdStrike says it disrupted the network by seeding bogus information that forced botnet components to cut themselves off from the creator, in coordination with European partners.

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