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...

IRS Emails Promise a Refund But Deliver Botnet Recruitment

U.S. taxpayers are being offered fake refunds in the latest wave of phishing emails, which ultimately deliver an payload that adds the target machine to the multifunctional Amadey botnet. Amadey is a relatively new botnet, first noted late in Q1 of 2019, according to Milo Salvia, security...

IRS Scam Leverages Hacked Tax Preparers, Client Bank Accounts

Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud have been busy of late hacking online accounts at multiple tax preparation firms, using them to file phony refund requests. Once the Internal Revenue Service processes the return and deposits money into bank accounts of the hacked firms' clients...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID21297: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 23, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 43706 First Published: 2016 February 24 13:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID21297 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID21139: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 18, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 43614 First Published: 2016 February 18 16:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID21139 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID14750: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 17, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 38422 First Published: 2015 April 17 13:24 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID14750 may contain the following files: Name | Si...