# CrowdStrike and Police in Four Countries Dismantle a Botnet That Swapped Copied Crypto Addresses for Eight Years

The same week, the United States Justice Department said seizures tied to Hamas crypto fundraising reached 560,000 dollars after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took control of the group's donation domains and servers.

- Published: 2026-09-03T05:55:38.226Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-09-03/crowdstrike-and-police-in-four-countries-dismantle-a-botnet
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: geopolitics
- Sources: [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/09/02/crowdstrike-and-federal-authorities-dismantle-russian-malware-that-secretly-stole-crypto-for-8-years), [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/02/doj-says-hamas-crypto-seizures-reached-usd560-000-as-fbi-took-over-fundraising-sites)

CrowdStrike's threat intelligence team, working with the United States Department of Justice, the FBI, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and police in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer botnet on 31 Au…

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