SALTY SPIDER
- First seen
- 2018-01-01 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- team
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:49:14
Targeted industries: financial-services
Context
Beginning in January 2018 and persisting through the first half of the year, CrowdStrike Intelligence observed SALTY SPIDER, developer and operator of the long-running Sality botnet, distribute malware designed to target cryptocurrency users.
Reports & references
- CrowdStrike — Report2020Crowdstrikeglobalthreatreport (report)
- CrowdStrike — 2019 Crowdstrike Global Threat Report (report)