Tax Related Spear-Phishing Aims at CTOs in Tech Companies

  • 20 February 2015
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By Ionut Ilascu    20 Feb 2015
 
Banking Trojan is distributed via malicious Word macro
 
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A new targeted phishing campaign has been observed by security researchers to focus on high level security professionals in technical companies, such as CTOs.
 
Since the US tax filing is approaching (deadline set on April 15), it’s no wonder that cybercriminals chose this theme to attract victims into downloading malware.

 

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Researchers at Talos, Cisco’s security intelligence and research group, observed on Tuesday the deployment of the malicious campaign, which delivered emails with subjects related to different payment details and federal taxes. Full Article

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