CrowdStrike Disrupts Sality Botnet After More Than 20 Years
The Sality peer-to-peer botnet, which CrowdStrike and international partners disrupted after more than two decades of activity. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana
Cybersecurity expert Ken Underhill reports from CrowdStrike on the disruption of the 20-year-old Sality botnet and what security teams need to know.
Sep 3, 2026
After more than two decades online, one of the internet’s longest-running botnets has finally lost control of its infected machines.
CrowdStrike said its Counter Adversary Operations team disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet on Aug. 31 in coordination with US and international law enforcement and industry partners. The operation effectively cut the alleged operator off from more than 15,000 infected systems worldwide.
I’m at CrowdStrike’s conference this week and have gotten a firsthand look at how the operation came together, including details about the alleged operator that I cannot share here.
What stood out to me was that this was not simply...
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