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Microsoft Warns of New Tax Returns Phishing Scams Targeting You
About to pay your taxes? Watch out for tax return phishing and malware campaigns targeting individual taxpayers and businesses.
IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware
Researchers have warned users to be on alert, as the IRS never sends emails to confirm taxpayers’ personal information.
Network access to Pakistan’s top fed agency FBR sold on Russian forum
FBR has acknowledged the data breach and called it out as cyber-terrorism on Pakistan's independence day.
New Ransomware Email Scam Using FBI and IRS as Bait
Email scams have become so common nowadays that every other day there’s a new one. The only difference…
Hackers Pull Another Attack at IRS, Stopped Before Anything Was Taken
Last year, IRS was hacked twice where personal information of thousands of taxpayers was stolen. Now, according to…
University of Michigan Employees Trapped by Google Phishing Email
Around 150 University of Michigan employees lost sensitive information thanks to scammed emails, informs the university’s Division of…
Security Breach Rattles IRS, 334,000 Tax Payers Data Stolen
A security breach of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was previously reported during May in which hackers…
Thanks IRS for poor security: Financial Info On 100,000 Taxpayers Stolen
The IRS announced in an official statement today that it has closed down an online service to obtain…
US Citizens Targeted with Ransomware via Fake IRS Tax Return Emails
Tax Return-themed Emails make Users in America the Target of Ransomware – Attackers sending genuine-looking Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…