SALTY SPIDER is a criminal group likely operating out of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia, a region close to the Kazakhstan border. This actor develops and maintains a botnet known as Sality that is a polymorphic file infector linked to an advanced peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. The original centralized version of Sality goes back to at least 2003. It was superseded by a peer-to-peer version in...