Security News > 2024 > February > PurpleFox malware infected thousands of systems in Ukraine
2024-02-01 17:10
The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine is warning about a PurpleFox malware campaign that has infected at least 2,000 computers in the country.
PurpleFox is a modular Windows botnet malware first spotted in 2018 that comes with a rootkit module allowing it to hide and persist between device reboots.
CERT-UA used IoCs shared by Avast and TrendMicro to identify PurpleFox malware infections on Ukrainian computers, tracking the activity under the identifier 'UAC-0027.'.
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