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Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks

Posted on March 24, 2017 by BrianKrebs

A recent, massive spike in sophisticated and successful phishing attacks is prompting many universities to speed up timetables for deploying mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) — requiring a one-time code in addition to a password — for access to student and faculty services online. This is the story of one university that accelerated plans to require 2FA after witnessing nearly twice as many phishing victims in the first two-and-half months of this year than it saw in all of 2015. Continue reading Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks→

Govt. Cybersecurity Contractor Hit in W-2 Phishing Scam

Posted on March 17, 2017 by BrianKrebs

Just a friendly reminder that phishing scams which spoof the boss and request W-2 tax data on employees are intensifying as tax time nears. The latest victim shows that even cybersecurity experts can fall prey to these increasingly sophisticated attacks.

On Thursday, March 16, the CEO of Defense Point Security, LLP — a Virginia company that bills itself as “the choice provider of cyber security services to the federal government” — told all employees that their W-2 tax data was handed directly to fraudsters after someone inside the company got caught in a phisher’s net. Continue reading Govt. Cybersecurity Contractor Hit in W-2 Phishing Scam→

IRS: Scam Blends CEO Fraud, W-2 Phishing

Posted on February 2, 2017 by BrianKrebs

Most regular readers here are familiar with CEO fraud — e-mail scams in which the attacker spoofs the boss and tricks an employee at the organization into wiring funds to the fraudster. Loyal readers also have heard an earful about W-2 phishing, in which crooks impersonate the boss and request a copy of all employee tax forms. According to a new “urgent alert” issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, scammers are now combining both schemes and targeting a far broader range of organizations than ever before. Continue reading IRS: Scam Blends CEO Fraud, W-2 Phishing→

Shopping for W2s, Tax Data on the Dark Web

Posted on January 31, 2017 by BrianKrebs

The 2016 tax season is now in full swing in the United States, which means scammers are once again assembling vast dossiers of personal data and preparing to file fraudulent tax refund requests on behalf of millions of Americans. But for those lazy identity thieves who can’t be bothered to phish or steal the needed data, there is now another option: Buying stolen W-2 tax forms from other crooks who have phished the documents wholesale from corporations. Continue reading Shopping for W2s, Tax Data on the Dark Web→

Ahoy there! More HMRC tax refund scams ahead

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Jovi Umawing

Phishing campaigns banking on the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tax claim are not unheard of, especially in the UK. In this blog, we take a look at a recent phishing email.

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IRS Re-Enables ‘Get Transcript’ Feature

Posted on June 10, 2016 by BrianKrebs

The Internal Revenue Service has re-enabled a service on its Web site that allows taxpayers to get a copy of their previous year’s tax transcript. The renewed effort to beef up taxpayer authentication methods at irs.gov comes more than a year after the agency disabled the transcript service because tax refund fraudsters were using it to steal sensitive data on consumers. Continue reading IRS Re-Enables ‘Get Transcript’ Feature→

Fraudsters Steal Tax, Salary Data From ADP

Posted on May 3, 2016 by BrianKrebs

Identity thieves stole tax and salary data from payroll giant ADP by registering accounts in the names of employees at more than a dozen customer firms, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. ADP says the incidents occurred because the victim companies all mistakenly published sensitive ADP account information online that made those firms easy targets for tax fraudsters. Continue reading Fraudsters Steal Tax, Salary Data From ADP→

Phishing Victims Muddle Tax Fraud Fight

Posted on March 24, 2016 by BrianKrebs

Many U.S. citizens are bound to experience delays in getting their tax returns processed this year, thanks largely to more stringent controls enacted by Uncle Sam and the states to block fraudulent tax refund requests filed by identity thieves. A steady drip of corporate data breaches involving phished employee W-2 information is adding to the backlog, as is an apparent mass adoption by ID thieves of professional tax services for processing large numbers of phony refund requests. Continue reading Phishing Victims Muddle Tax Fraud Fight→

Thieves Phish Moneytree Employee Tax Data

Posted on March 16, 2016 by BrianKrebs

Payday lending firm Moneytree is the latest company to alert current and former employees that their tax data — including Social Security numbers, salary and address information — was accidentally handed over directly to scam artists. Continue reading Thieves Phish Moneytree Employee Tax Data→

Security Tips for Tax Season — and Beyond

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Rick M Robinson

The IRS recently released security tips that individuals and businesses should consider when filing important tax information online.

The post Security Tips for Tax Season — and Beyond appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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