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Vultur banking malware for Android poses as McAfee Security app

ID: 667cf540-e61c-56df-94be-f278d04de69c

STIX ID: report--667cf540-e61c-56df-94be-f278d04de69c

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
72/100

Date Published: 2024-03-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Bill Toulas

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**Executive summary:** Researchers documented a new, more evasive Vultur Android banking trojan variant delivered through smishing and social-engineered phone calls that tricks victims into installing a trojanized McAfee Security app; the dropper loads multiple encrypted payloads enabling screen recording, keylogging, comprehensive remote control (gesture injection, app blocking), encrypted C2 communications and native-code payload decryption, and has been observed targeting many banking apps across multiple countries.

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