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- Hi all,
I've spent some time over the last few days getting to know the Sality botnet, which is estimated to have at least one million peers. It was ranked by Symantec as the number one malicious code family in 2010 by number of endpoint detections, and has been used to push spam, steal passwords, crack SIP accounts, and various other nasty things.
It has come to my attention that it is not only possible but easy to seize control of version three of the botnet, and, more importantly, take it down. Sadly, doing so would require breaking the law. For this reason, I have to request that nobody perform the steps I am about describe.