More than 2,000 computers across Ukraine were noted by the country’s Computer Emergency Response Team to have been compromised as part of a widespread attack campaign with the modular Windows botnet payload PurpleFox, also known as DirtyMoe, which could be leveraged to facilitate further payload deployment and distributed denial-of-service intrusions, BleepingComputer reports. Most of the 486 intermediate control server IP addresses detected in PurpleFox-infected computers from Jan.

Source: SC Magazine