SpyEye Botmasters Hit Anti-Botnet Site with Denial-of-Service Attack

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A white hat Website that identifies malicious domains is under attack by criminals using Zeus and SpyEye toolkits.

Cyber-criminals using the SpyEye and Zeus rootkits are conducting a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack against a Swiss “white hat” Website, abuse.ch, according to researchers at RSA’s FraudAction Research Lab. The Swiss site has been identifying rogue Internet service providers and malicious domains hosting banking Trojans and in November launched its SpyEye Tracker, which tracks malicious SpyEye (C&C) command and control services.

The attackers are using new plug-ins developed for the latest variants of the SpyEye Trojan, RSA said. The plug-ins’ primary focus is DDoS attacks against legitimate Websites.

SpyEye botmasters are “battling” the site that “threatens the very existence and effectiveness” of their botnets, the researchers wrote on March 9.

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