Analysts detected operators of one botnet targeting another malware control hub viadistributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
According to researchers at RSA, the “battle of the botmasters” took place when Cutwail "botmasters" inundated the infrastructure of another botnet using at least 300,000 infected machines at their disposal.
The firm began tracking the control server communications in mid-August.
On Thursday, a senior researcher at RSA Firs**bleep**ch Team going by the alias, “Fielder,” blogged about the occurrences. The researcher revealed that the DDoS attacks were aimed at competing Zeus command-and-control infrastructures.
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