---
id: 7466
title: "Peer Pressure: Inside the Sality Botnet Disruption Operation"
source_domain: crowdstrike.com
source_url: "https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/inside-sality-botnet-disruption-operation/"
published_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["threat-intelligence", "botnet", "crowdstrike", "law-enforcement", "sality", "sinkholing"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/7466"
lang: en
---

# Peer Pressure: Inside the Sality Botnet Disruption Operation

## Summary

CrowdStrike and partners disrupted the Sality P2P botnet on August 31, 2026 via peer-to-peer sinkholing, cutting command channels that had let the 20-year-old malware task 33,000+ infected machines.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** crowdstrike.com
- **Published:** 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/inside-sality-botnet-disruption-operation/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/7466