Botnet operators launch large-scale denial-of-service attacks against each other in an attempt to outsmart rivals and win the race to compromise computers.
Security researchers have discovered C&C servers belonging to Zeus botnetthat had been hit by those running a rival Cutwail botnet in a distributed denial-of-service attack, reaching 300,000 connections a minute.
The infamous Zeus malware was a trojan that was often used to steal banking information and install cyrptolocking software. The Zeus family is considered to be the largest botnet on the internet. Cutwail is also an established botnet that is usually involved in sending spam via the Pushdo trojan, sending millions of messages per day.
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