open-irs Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Degamisu open-irs is an issue response bot from Degamisu Japan for responding to issues in installed repositories. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in open-irs, which stems from the accidental upload of an .env file during a git operation...

Tax season is here, so are scammers

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that the 2024 tax filing season has officially begun, with an expected 146 million individual tax returns to be filed. While it is costly and complex for the IRS to process so many digital and paper documents, it can also be a headache for many Americans...

Tax preparation firms shared sensitive information with Meta

A group of seven US senators has sent a letter to the heads of the IRS, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS watchdog, revealing that they have found evidence that reveals "a shocking breach of taxpayer privacy by tax prep companies and by Big Tech firms." According...

Malware authors join forces and target organisations with Domino Backdoor

Theres a new ransomware gang in town, stitched together from members of well known threat creators to push a new kind of malware focused on punishing unwary organisations. The malware family, called "Domino", is the brainchild of FIN7 and ex-Conti ransomware members. Domino has been seen in attac...

Beware: Fake IRS tax email wants your Microsoft account

Last week, the IRS reminded taxpayers that Tax Day, April 18, is Tuesday this week. However, in some states like Alabama, California, and New York, the federal office extended the filing deadlines due to natural disasters. This is an excellent reason for scammers to keep launching tax scam...

Pinduoduo, a Top Chinese Shopping App, Is Laced With Malware

Plus: 119 arrested during a sting on the Genesis dark-web market, the IRS aims to buy an online mass surveillance tool, and more...

Visitors of tax return e-file service may have downloaded malware

The IRS-authorized electronic filing service for tax returns, eFile.com, has been caught serving a couple of malicious JavaScript JS files these past few weeks, according to several security researchers and corroborated by BleepingComputer. Note this security incident only concerns eFile.com, not...

IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware

By Waqas Researchers have warned users to be on alert, as the IRS never sends emails to confirm taxpayers' personal information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware...

Beware: Fake IRS tax email delivers Emotet malware

Tax season is upon us and, as with every year, we're seeing tax scammers rearing their heads. Below, we have an example of a tax scam currently in circulation along with some suggestions for avoiding these kinds of attacks. An IRS W-9 tax form scam A Form W-9 is a form you fill in to confirm...

Emotet resumes spam operations, switches to OneNote

Emotet resumed spamming operations on March 7, 2023, after a months-long hiatus. Initially leveraging heavily padded Microsoft Word documents to attempt to evade sandbox analysis and endpoint protection, the botnets switched to distributing malicious OneNote documents on March 16. Since returning...

Hacking the Tax Code

The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input--financial information for the year--and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly complex code; there are a bazillion details and exceptions and speci...

PT-2023-34865 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel versions prior to v5.10.164 Description: The issue is related to the regulator, specifically the da9211, and its use of an irq handler when ready. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. Recommendation...

Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today. Thats a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again Im bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. Heck, Ive been doing this so long I briefly forgot which birthday this was! Thanks to your readership and...

IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash

A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards...

Huge increase in smishing scams, warns IRS

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has issued a warning for taxpayers about a recent increase in IRS-themed smishing scams aimed at stealing personal and financial information. Smishing is short for SMS phishing, where the phishes are sent via text message. The IRS has identified and reported...

“Oops, I insecurely coded again!”

The call is coming from inside the house It’s no secret that companies need to be vigilant about application security. However, frequently the source of application vulnerabilities may come as a surprise to security teams. While zero-day exploits are a principal focus of vulnerability mitigation...

irs.nl Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2664238

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Why Paper Receipts are Money at the Drive-Thru

Check out this handmade sign posted to the front door of a shuttered Jimmy Johns sandwich chain shop in Missouri last week. See if you can tell from the store owners message what happened. If you guessed that someone in the Jimmy Johns store might have fallen victim to a Business Email Compromise...

Filing your taxes? Be wary of help found through search engines

The deadline for filing your taxes in the US is nearly upon us. April 18 is the very last date that you can afford to hand your tax returns in to the IRS. People will naturally gravitate toward all manner of filing tools to get the job done. But it’s worth noting that sites are lurking in search...

IRS: Selfies Now Optional, Biometric Data to Be Deleted

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service IRS said Monday that taxpayers are no longer required to provide facial scans to create an account online at irs.gov. In lieu of providing biometric data, taxpayers can now opt for a live video interview with ID.me, the privately-held Virginia company that runs t...