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FBR, Pakistan’s IRS, has acknowledged the data breach and called it out as cyber-terrorism on Pakistan’s independence day. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) of Pakistan (fbr.gov.pk) has suffered a large-scale cyber attack. This was revealed after a group of unknown hackers were found selling network access to the agency with more than 1500 computer systems on a Russian […]
Email scams have become so common nowadays that every other day there’s a new one. The only difference is the way scammers try create genuine looking emails so that recipients are lured into opening them and clicking on the malicious attachment. There is a new email scam in which residents in Connecticut, United States are […]
Last year, IRS was hacked twice where personal information of thousands of taxpayers was stolen. Now, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the IRS, cyber criminals have used stolen personal information of more than a hundred thousand U.S. citizens in an attempt to use the electronic tax-filing system for fraudulent purposes. A similar attack […]
Breach comes a year after a previous hack compromised 300,000 people. The US Internal Revenue Service was the target of a malware attack that netted electronic tax-return credentials for 101,000 social security numbers, the agency disclosed Tuesday. Identity thieves made the haul by using taxpayers’ personal data that was stolen from a source outside the IRS, […]
Around 150 University of Michigan employees lost sensitive information thanks to scammed emails, informs the university’s Division of Public Safety and Security. Several phishing emails were sent by scammers to the U-M community. The emails had links to unauthentic Google Form, which were designed to steal personal information. People clicked on those links and submitted […]
A security breach of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was previously reported during May in which hackers stole tax information of thousands of taxpayers was actually almost three times bigger than the agency reported in the past. According to the officials at IRS, hackers managed to compromise data of as many as 334,000 taxpayers […]
Today, the common public is aware, more than ever, regarding rights and privacy. Recent revelations made by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have made it clearer that your government is looking at your personal data. In the wake of some new leaks by Edward Snowden, I’d like to tell you that government can “effortlessly” read […]
Tax Return-themed Emails make Users in America the Target of Ransomware – Attackers sending genuine-looking Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax refund messages. Today, when the culture of filing tax reports in the United States has come to an end, cybercriminals have instigated their phishing lure and are busy distributing fake emails that appear to be from the […]