A huge fight has been done by the large denial of service attacks against each other in a bid to knock out rivals in the race to compromise computers in the criminal underground by Botnet operators. Command and control servers owned by operators of Zeus botnets were blasted by those running a rival Cutwail botnet in a distributed denial of service attack reaching 300,000 connections a minute, observed by researchers. The infamous Zeus malware was a trojan often used to steal banking information and install cyrpto locking software. The Zeus family was considered to be the largest botnet operating on …continue reading
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