ESET Threat Blog

Spring is here and that means scam artists are thinking about income taxes and the IRS. Not that scam artists pay income taxes, they just know taxes and any mention of the IRS is a good way to get your attention, which explains a steady stream of deceptive emails targeting tax-paying Americans who now have … Read More…

SANS posted a story at the Internet Storm Center a couple of days ago that they were seeing fake email from the IRS. (Even I don't have time to read everything on the Internet relating to current information security issues.)
The emails described try to kid the victim that they've under-reported or failed to report income, … Read More…

As talk goes on in Washington DC about a 2009 Stimulus payment, the phisher are still trying to exploit the 2008 stimulus program. One such attack claims to be the secure way to get your stimulus payment. There was only one secure way to do that, and it was by going through the IRS. There … Read More…

Welcome to prime-time scam season. This is when the advertisements for taxes in the USA really start to pick up. Granted, they go on all year long, but now is when we traditionally see an increase in volume. There are a variety of such scams.
The worst of the scams are the phishing attacks. If … Read More…