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8 Tips for Filing Taxes Online Safely
By Mike Kronenberg Getting ready to file your taxes online — and doing it at the last minute? Well, cyber-scammers are ready for you. Thieves are schemers, and they’ve got a bag full of tricks to steal...
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Spamvertised ‘Your tax return appeal is declined’ emails serving client-side...
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising with IRS (Internal Revenue Service) themed emails, enticing end and corporate users into downloading and viewing a malicious .htm...
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IRS themed spam campaign leads to Black Hole exploit kit
By Dancho Danchev Recently, cybercriminals launched yet another massive spam campaign, this time impersonating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in an attempt to trick tax payers into clicking on a...
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Spamvertised ‘Federal Tax Payment Rejected’ themed emails lead to Black Hole...
By Dancho Danchev Remember the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) themed malicious campaign profiled at Webroot’s Threat Blog earlier this month? Over the past 24 hours, the cybercriminals behind the...
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Bogus IRS ‘Your tax return appeal is declined’ themed emails lead to malware
By Dancho Danchev In March 2012, we intercepted an IRS themed malicious campaign that was serving client-side exploits to prospective victims in an attempt to drop malware on the affected hosts. This...
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Spamvertised IRS ‘Income Tax Refund Turned Down’ themed emails lead to Black...
By Dancho Danchev Its tax season and cybercriminals are mass mailing tens of thousands of IRS (Internal Revenue Service) themed emails in an attempt to trick users into thinking that their income tax...
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