Malicious App Impersonating McAfee
A trojanized version of the McAfee app is installing the Android banking Trojan “Vultur”, according to researchers. The threat actors employ a hybrid attack using two SMS messages and a phone call in order to spread links to the malicious app and deceive unsuspecting individuals into installing the malware.
First, the victim will receive an SMS message instructing them to call a number if they did not authorize a transaction involving a large amount of money. This transaction didn’t actually occur, but it will create a false sense of urgency to trick the victim into acting quickly. If the victim does call the number, they will receive another text with a link to a malicious version of the McAfee Security app, and this will install the Vultur malware.
The application is actually Brunhilda dropper; this will look benign to the victim, but in reality it will decrypt and execute a total of 3 Vultur-related payloads in order to give the threat actors total control over the victim’s mobile device. This version of Vultur also has new features making it harder to detect. Visit here to learn more about the latest attack, and how to keep yourself safe against these types of attack.
LastPass Password Management
MCG Managed Resources is becoming a vendor for the LastPass MSP solution, and we are excited to offer this to our customers.
LastPass is an all-in-one access solution for Managed Service Providers. By combining Password Management with Single Sign-On and Multifactor Authentication, we can meet our customers’ needs while maintaining insight and control from a central admin console. The solution has many positive features including increasing password hygiene in order to reduce the risk of data breaches, and providing clients with more control to access their work, share passwords, and reset passwords on their own. LastPass can increase client productivity and satisfaction while minimizing typical risks.
As a vendor, MCG has access to on-demand and live training to learn about LastPass and to continually drive awareness and adoption with clients using the solution. If you are interested in this service, please reach out to Ken at kgoldberg@managedresources.com or call the office.
The HEY Way
Email is more cluttered, more overwhelming, and more frustrating than ever. HEY has redesigned it around an original, new philosophy called The HEY Way.
Like me, your current day email is likely full of other people’s demands on your time and attention. Anyone can email you without consent, marketers can track your behavior, and email providers can sell ads against your inbox. HEY is the company and product with interests aligned to mine and yours, to create control over who is emailing you, how you read your email without the eyes of a marketer watching, and free of ads.
HEY is available on the web, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. HEY is its own platform and a full email service provider. You can sign up and receive your own @hey.com email address. Then, any time someone new emails you they will land in The Screener; this area allows you to decide if ‘Yes’ they’re in and able to email you or ‘No’ and they’re out forever. If you say ‘Yes’ the email then goes one of three places; important emails immediately go to The Imbox, non-urgent emails that you read occasionally, like newsletters, will go to The Feed, and emails that you rarely read, like receipts, will go to The Paper Trail. There is also a ‘Reply Later’ button, which will move emails to a stack at the bottom of the screen in order to stick around but stay out of your way until you have time for them. When you have time, you can click the ‘Focus & Reply’ button to line up your stack and work through your replies.
There are various features in HEY aiming to make your email a better, more manageable place that you are in control of. You can clip emails or add sticky notes for easy searching, push notifications are turned off by default to decrease email noisiness, plus blocks to spy tracking, updated signature options, and the removal of unread counts to decrease stress. To learn more about HEY and your email options, plus a new calendar option, visit here for all the details.
