tax season
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, ...
As tax deadlines approach, Emotet malware disguises itself in an IRS email
Security researchers have warned that they have seen a number of malicious email campaigns which pose as communications from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The post As tax deadlines approach, Emotet malware ...
Preventing Tax Identity Theft, FTC and Robocallers, Google Photos Incident
In episode 107 for February 10th 2020: preventing tax identity theft and other tax scams, the FTC taking a stand against companies that support robocallers, and details on the incident where videos ...
Avoid the Dangerous IRS Phishing Scams During Tax Season
It’s tax season once again, when scammers start working overtime to deceive unwitting taxpayers into giving away personal information or sending in money for phony tax preparation services, or even payments for ...
Facebook’s Bad Week, Stalkerware, Tax Season Scams
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 8th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Facebook’s very bad week, Stalkerware on the rise, and tax season scams ...
