EUVD-2019-8350

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Obscured by Clouds: Insights into Office 365 Attacks and How Mandiant Managed Defense Investigates

With Business Email Compromises BECs showing no signs of slowing down, it is becoming increasingly important for security analysts to understand Office 365 O365 breaches and how to properly investigate them. This blog post is for those who have yet to dip their toes into the waters of an O365 BEC...

CVE-2019-18626

Harris Ormed Self Service before 2019.1.4 allows an authenticated user to view W-2 forms belonging to other users via an arbitrary empNo value to the ORMEDMIS/Data/PY/T4W2Service.svc/RetrieveW2EntriesForEmployee URI, thus exposing sensitive information including employee tax information, social...

CVE-2019-18626

Harris Ormed Self Service before 2019.1.4 allows an authenticated user to view W-2 forms belonging to other users via an arbitrary empNo value to the ORMEDMIS/Data/PY/T4W2Service.svc/RetrieveW2EntriesForEmployee URI, thus exposing sensitive information including employee tax information, social...

Carbon Black Report Finds Tax Fraud & “Identity Theft On Demand” Continuing to Take Shape on the Dark Web

While online sales of identity and banking information have both been easily accessible to malicious actors for a decade or more, there has been a recent maturation in the dark web economy focused on tax identity theft. Carbon Black’s recent research into various marketplaces on the dark web foun...

FBI Warns Of Spike In W-2 Phishing Campaigns

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning businesses about a spike in phishing campaigns requesting W-2 information from payroll personnel. In a recent security advisory the FBI warned it has seen an increase since January in reports of compromised or spoofed emails involving W-2 forms. Thes...

IC3 Issues Alert on Increase in W-2 Phishing Campaigns

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert on the increase in W-2-related phishing campaigns. Fraudsters often use tax-related phishing emails to get victims to provide personally identifiable information, click on a malicious link, or pay a ransom. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages...

Fraudsters Exploited Lax Security at Equifax’s TALX Payroll Division

Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud had big help this past tax year from Equifax, one of the nation's largest consumer data brokers and credit bureaus. The trouble stems from TALX, an Equifax subsidiary that provides online payroll, HR and tax services. Equifax says crooks were ab...

Business Email Compromise Losses Up 2,370 Percent Since 2015

Business Email Compromise BEC schemes, where executives are scammed via social engineering and phishing compromises that ultimately lead to fraudulent wire transfers, grew at a jaw-dropping rate of 2,370 percent in the last two years. The FBI yesterday published its latest statistics on these...

IRS Tax Phishing Scam Circulating

It’s tax season, and that means IRS-related phishing scams are ramping up. One such fake e-mail hitting in-boxes this past week asks “U.S.-based employers” to complete an “updated” version of the government’s W-2 form because of “important changes” within the forms. Read the full article...