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Monday is Tax Day. Many of us are thinking about our taxes. Are they too high or too low? What’s our money being spent on? Do we have a government worth paying for? I’m not here to answer any of those questions — I’m here to give you something else to think about. In addition to sending the IRS your… Continue reading IRS Security
It seems that February was a busy month for scammers, who managed to trick a number of companies into coughing up confidential payroll information about their staff.
Continue reading More companies hit by fake CEO attack to steal employees’ payroll information
The US tax agency has pulled the plug on the 2FA system after sniffing out 800 fraudulent returns filed with the PINs. Continue reading IRS yanks anti-identity-theft tool IP PIN over 800 identity thefts
Identity protection PIN tool didn’t offer enough security to bar fraudulent resets. Continue reading IRS shuts down identity security tool for taxpayers due to security problems
If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, you really should go ahead and do it before a cybercriminal does it for you. Continue reading More companies snared by same type of phishing attack that hit Snapchat
Citing ongoing security concerns, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a service offered via its Web site that allowed taxpayers to retrieve so-called IP Protection PINs (IP PINs), codes that the IRS has assigned to some 2.7 million taxpayers to help prevent those individuals from becoming victims of tax refund fraud two years in a row. The move comes just days after KrebsOnSecurity first exposed how ID thieves were abusing the service to revisit tax refund on innocent taxpayers two years running. Continue reading IRS Suspends Insecure ‘Get IP PIN’ Feature
In February, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning about a 400 percent surge in tax related phishing and malware incidents. The alert said that the most noticeable increase was that of emails and messages impersonating the IRS or other persons and entities in the tax industry. Then, on the first day of March came another warning, meant specifically for payroll and human resources professionals. The phishers have hit a gold mine: by … More → Continue reading Phishers successfully tricking payroll pros into sharing employee data
A forged e-mail from CEO pays off again, may be tied to tax return fraud. Continue reading Seagate employees’ W-2 forms exposed in another payroll phish
Past and present US employees of data storage firm Seagate are learning to face the facts: their identities may now be in the hands of a criminal gang, after the company revealed that a phishing attack had successfully stolen personal and tax informati… Continue reading Seagate employees at risk of identity theft after tax forms disclosed
IRS Issues Alert for Tax Phishing Scheme
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