It seems that two of the largest Botnet gangs maybe fighting each other. The P2P Botnet created by Storm-Worm variants seems to have been used to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against several of the domains used by the Warezov/Medbot gang. 

Coupled with this supposed attack it seems that the websites of several Anti SPAM organisations have been targeted in the attacks. Joe Stewart over at SecureWorks has posted an analysis of the attacks here.

There has also be some speculation that these attacks are related to the attacks that have been reported against the DNS root servers. Associated Press reported that the attacks overwhelmed at least 3 of the 13 root DNS servers on Tuesday. Stats provided here by DNS monitoring at RIPE seem to indicate that these attacks could have disrupted at least 2 of the root DNS servers.

We watch and wait for more developments.

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