Virus War of 2007 - Authoring groups battle each other

Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:41 PM by hwaldron

Not only are the bad guys attacking users, but they are fighting each other with DDoS based attacks from backdoors on infected systems.  

Virus War of 2007 - StormWorm vs Warezov 
http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/view.html?threat=storm-worm
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-022007.html#00001109

QUOTE: Interesting developments going on. The P2P botnet created by Storm-Worm variants has been used to launch Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks. Targets include several domains used by the Warezov/Medbot gang

Virus War of 2004 - Mydoom vs Netsky
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-042004.html

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