PurpleFox (also known as DirtyMoe, Perkiler, and NuggetPhantom) is a PowerShell-based botnet and exploit kit to install cryptocurrency miners that has been active since late 2017. It has had a slowly growing number of features from DDoS in 2018 to now including a worm module to spread via SMB. In 2021, the PurpleFox gang has installed miners on over 100,000 systems. This reporting comes from Avast, which may be an undercount.
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