Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers

Purple Fox, a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that gives it worm-like propagation capabilities. The ongoing campaign makes use of a “novel spreading technique via indiscriminate port scanning and exploitation of exposed SMB services with weak passwords and hashes,”

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