tax fraud
Tax Refund Fraud in 2026: How Threat Actors Exploit Identity, Verification, and Cash-Out Channels
How threat actors are executing tax refund fraud schemes, from sourcing identity data to bypassing verification and cashing out fraudulent returns, and what these patterns reveal about evolving fraud ecosystems. The post ...
The Cost of Tax Season Fraud: How Threat Actors Target Your Data and Money
The IRS identified a staggering $5.7 billion in tax fraud schemes last year, over twice the amount reported in 2021. And with the large amount of personally identifiable information (PII) that is ...
Your Data, Their Gain: How Threat Actors Leverage Tax Season to Commit Fraud
In 2020, the IRS identified over US$2.3 billion in tax fraud schemes, including tax return fraud. And in 2021, we identified 113 breaches which resulted in more than 69 million exposed records, ...
A week in security (April 16 – April 22)
A roundup of security news from April 16 – April 22, including tax fraud, Adobe Flash, trustjacking, and surveillanceware. Categories: Security world Week in security Tags: a week in securityadobe flashcryptocurrencycryptomininggandcrab ransomwarerecapretail ...
Combating W-2 Fraud, An Avalanche of False Positives and Wasted Time
Nobody likes tax season. Except perhaps the cybercriminals who are successfully scamming users into sharing their W-2 information. Year over year, the number of IRS-related phishing scams targeting individuals and companies continues ...
IRS Tax Fraud and IRS’s Woeful Cybersecurity
In late July, the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued the results of audit on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its woeful state of information security, a state which continues to ...
