Kurt 'CyberGuy' Knutsson recommends keeping an eye out for a malware campaign designed to fool people waiting for tax documents to show up in their email inboxes.
reveals that there is a new malware campaign designed to fool people waiting for tax documents to show up in their inboxes.CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTERThe new malware campaign seems to have ties to the Trojan virus - Emotet, which has been around since 2014. The way it infectsis by sending fake emails claiming to be from the IRS.
With this particular scam, two telltale signs will let you know that you're being fooled by a hacker. The first thing to remember is that tax forms are almost always sent as PDF files, and this dangerously deceptive one is sent as a Word or OneNote document. The ZIP file attachment is typically around 500 MB in size, which is way too big to be a normal document, making it a major warning sign that it's riddled with malware.Some other signs you should look for are spelling and grammar mistakes. Hackers don't always read through their emails before sending them, and some of them are from other countries where English is not their first language. A legit email is very unlikely to have mistakes like that.
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