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)

External references