Russian cybercrime operation being dismantled after two decades, US officials and CrowdStrike say

LAS VEGAS, Sept 1 : A two-decade-old Russian hacking operation dubbed "Sality" is being dismantled, U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced on Tuesday. U.S. officials said they had seized the web domains hackers used to take over computers to send spam, carry out distributed denial-of-service operations or steal cryptocurrency, while CrowdStrike said it had cut off a network of compromised computers from the mastermind controlling it.CrowdStrike began dismantling the "botnet" on Monday in front of a live audience at the company’s Day Zero threat intelligence summit in Las Vegas. The FBI and U.S. Justice Department said in a pair of statements issued on Tuesday that the operation had been carried out in coordination with European law enforcement and ot