Sality botnet dismantled after 23 years of cryptocurrency theft

CrowdStrike dismantled Sality, a Russian botnet active for 23 years.

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It had been hijacking copied-and-pasted Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses for eight years.

This operation deals a major blow to financial cybercrime.

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