Security News > 2024 > February > PurpleFox malware infects thousands of computers in Ukraine
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.
The exact impact of this widespread infection and whether it has affected state organizations or regular people's computers hasn't been determined, but the agency has shared detailed information on how to locate infections and remove the malware.
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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