Beware: Fake IRS tax email wants your Microsoft account

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: IRS tax scam

Tags: tax scam

Tags: IRS

Tags: Jerome Segura

Tags: Telegram bot

Tags: Emotet

Expect more IRS tax-related shenanigans from fraudsters, who are now going for corporate accounts, after some states received deadline extensions.

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Visitors of tax return e-file service may have downloaded malware

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: tax scams

Tags: efile.com

Tags: US tax 2023

Tags: backdoor

Tags: Trojan

Tags: Johannes Ullrich

Tags: MalwareHunterTeam

Tags: /u/SaltyPotter

Tags: fake network error notification

Cybercriminals have compromised eFile.com to host malicious code that allows for the download of Trojans.

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Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: FBI

Tags: IC3

Tags: 2022

Tags: report

Tags: investment fraud

Tags: crypto-investment fraud

Tags: pig butchering

Tags: hacked socail media

According to the FBI’s annual report, investment fraud overtook business email compromise as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud in 2022.

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Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: LinkedIn

Tags: Slinks

Tags: phish

Tags: phishing

Tags: email

Tags: payment details

Tags: amazon

Tags: gmail

Tags: outlook

Tags: hotmail

Tags: scam

Tags: scammers

The email claims if you not update your card information in the next 24 hours, your membership benefits will be cancelled.

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iPhone calendar spam: What it is, and how to remove it

Categories: Awareness

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: iPhone

Tags: calendar

Tags: spam

Tags: iOS

Tags: mobile

Tags: device

Tags: ad

Tags: advert

Tags: popup

Tags: permission

Tags: remove

Tags: notification

Tags: Apple

Is your iPhone claiming that you’ve been hacked, your phone isn’t protected, or that viruses have damaged it? It could be calendar spam.

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Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: Hogwarts Legacy

Tags: video game survey scam

Tags: survey scam

Tags: Trojan dropper

Tags: adware

With Hogwarts Legacy becoming the popular game it was expected to be, online criminals have resorted to old tricks to get users clicking.

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