Symantec researchers came across a large number of spam messages that try to trick the recipient into clicking on a link that points to the malicious Blackhole toolkit.
Over 200 unique URLs have been identified in a series of emails that urge users to verify their accounts after some discrepancies were identified by... |
8 February 2012
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Internet users are advised to be on the lookout for a series of malicious emails that allegedly come from a legitimate company called Fidelity Investment, informing recipients that their tax statements are ready.
Trend Micro researchers identified the attachment that comes with the email as a variant of the Zbot spy... |
23 January 2012
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The saying about death and taxes takes a whole different meaning as a new malicious spam campaign that's been spotted in the wild claims a processing error that occurred because you're registered as being dead.
“Our records indicate that the person identified as the primary taxpayer or spouse on th... |
13 October 2011
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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn that a wave of fake IRS emails direct recipients to a new variant of the LICAT file infecting virus.LICAT is a piece of malware associated with the ZeuS banking trojan that first appeared back in October 2010. Malware analysts believe that LICAT is intended as a distribution... |
28 July 2011
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The Internal Revenue Service warns taxpayers to be wary of scam emails that pose as official communications from the agency, as the tax filing deadline of April 18th draws near."Crooks send out unsolicited e-mails or shoot you an IM or something through Twitter asking you to send them your personal information, maybe... |
10 March 2011
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Tax evasion recently landed actor Wesley Snipes in prison, and Nicolas Cage in hot water. Still, the IRS doesn’t discriminate between actor, singer or reality star. Marc Anthony owes $3.4 million in back taxes, it has emerged. He and wife Jennifer Lopez make an estimated $61+ million each year but, somehow, Mar... |
30 December 2010
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Toni Braxton is one of the best-selling artists in the music industry, but she’s again in financial trouble twice in 12 years, having filed again for bankruptcy and saying she may be over $50 million in debt. The diva has just filed bankruptcy papers, saying her worth is now somewhere between $1 million to $10 ... |
8 October 2010
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A protein in the insulin signaling pathway is one of the factors that decide whether a female bee becomes a queen or just another worker, claim researchers from the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.Florian Wolschin, assistant research professor in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences an... |
15 July 2010
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In August this year, it emerged that Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage owed $6.2 million in unpaid taxes, as a lien filed by the IRS in Louisiana showed. Over the weekend, the star was slapped with yet another lawsuit also over money, in which the East West Bank alleged he had defaulted on a $2-million loan, as E! Online ... |
5 October 2009
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Security researchers warn that fake email messages purporting to be from the IRS are attempting to get receivers infected by directing them to a malicious website. This malware distribution campaign has been tracked back to the Cutwail spam botnet.This new scam has been reported by email and Web protection company MX... |
10 September 2009
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Although he’s making an estimated $14 million for each movie he puts out no matter how it fares at the box-office, Nicolas Cage is rather sloppy when it comes to paying his taxes. The actor is currently investigated for owing the IRS over $6.2 million in unpaid back taxes, and may even face jail time if he&rsqu... |
4 August 2009
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The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), audited the network security of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as part of its mandatory annual review. In doing so, it found 2,093 internal vulnerable web servers on the network and 1,811 web servers that were not authorized to access the network.Acco... |
5 September 2008
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US citizens are warned that a spam message claiming to originate from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is circulating on the Internet. The users are lured by a "stimulus payment" message into visiting a phishing site and providing the scammer with their private data. There are several security risks associated with... |
18 July 2008
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This is a recent one. It seems that the "IRS" rips off people - what do you mean you already knew that? No, I don't mean the real IRS, I mean hackers pretending to be The Internal Revenue Service! So what is actually happening is that some malicious users are sending a lot of spam messages to many users, telling... |
28 August 2007
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