Beware! That bogus tax-related email could be hiding the NanoCore trojan

  • 10 February 2016
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David Bisson | February 10, 2016
 
                                                


 
Researchers have spotted an ongoing tax-themed malicious email campaign that is delivering the NanoCore remote access trojan (RAT) as its malware payload.
 
Anthony Kasza and Tyler Halfpop, malware researchers at Palo Alto Networks, write in a blog post how they recently spotted the campaign after coming across a number of emails with malicious attachments and with subject lines featuring the words "tax", "pin", and "report":
 
  • [Attention] Your 2014 Tax Report
  • [Urgent Attention] Your 2015 Secure IP PIN
  • [ATO: URGENT] Your 2014 Tax Return Report!
  • [URGENT ATTENTION] Your 2014 Tax Return!
  • [ATO: ATTENTION] Your 2015 Tax Return PIN!
  • [IRS ATTENTION] Your 2015 Secure IP PIN!!!
  • [HMRC ATTENTION] Your 2015 Tax Report PIN!
  • [attention] Your 2015 Tax Return PIN!!!
 
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good article Jasper and a good reminder to all if they receive this type of attachments.
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Who would have guessed?
 
As tax season approaches, beware of tax related scams
 
-Dan

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