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Post-Tax Season Spam Campaign Delivers URSNIF to North American Taxpayers

  • Posted on:June 6, 2018 at 5:00 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Although many tax scams purely rely on social engineering, other campaigns make use of more sophisticated tools and techniques. We found and analyzed one such campaign delivering the notorious banking trojan known as URSNIF to North American targets.

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Tags: malspamtax seasonURSNIF

Behind Tax Fraud: A Profile of 3 IRS Scammers

  • Posted on:April 15, 2015 at 3:08 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Cybercriminals have been taking advantage of tax season for years. While we have seen tax seasons involving countries like Australia and the U.K., it appears that cybercriminals tend to heavily favor the use of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scams, especially during the US tax season. Over the years, the attackers’ means may have evolved but their…

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Tags: IRSIRS scamsIRS tax scamssocial engineeringtaxtax scamstax season

The Timely Tale of Tax-related Threat Troubles

  • Posted on:April 22, 2014 at 11:03 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Ryan Certeza (Technical Communications)
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Tax season in the US and Canada has always been popular among cybercriminals. After all, it’s one of the few reliable times in a year that a lot of money gets thrown around online, due to the convenience of filing (and) paying taxes over the Internet. As such, we make it a point to look…

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Tags: ExploitsMalwaresocial engineeringSpamtax seasonVulnerabilities

UK Tax-Themed Spam Leads to ZeuS/ZBOT

  • Posted on:August 19, 2013 at 8:08 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Gelo Abendan (Technical Communications)
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Tax-themed spam, particularly in the United States, is already considered a staple in the threat landscape. However, a recent spam run targeting taxpayers in the United Kingdom shows that this threat is never exclusive to a region. Besides being timely, these messages contain TSPY_FAREIT, which download a ZeuS/ZBOT variant, notorious for stealing information related to…

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Tags: information thefttax seasonUK spamVAT returnsZBOTZeuS

Cybercriminals Threaten Tax Day Once Again

  • Posted on:April 4, 2013 at 11:36 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Spam
  • Author:
    Gelo Abendan (Technical Communications)
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) opened up the filing season on January 30, 2013 to help taxpayers prepare for the looming April 15 tax deadline. April 15 or colloquially known as Tax Day is when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Typical of cybercriminals, they have also prepared their own tax-related scams for taxpayers with scams…

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Tags: phishingSpamtax season

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