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tax season
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Tax season brings a surge in phishing campaigns that exploit urgency and fear to target U.S. taxpayers, accountants, and IT professionals. Recent threats observed by Microsoft's threat intelligence team combine social engineering with redirection techniques and sophisticated malware. Attackers use malicious attachments, spoofed websites, and harmful macros to compromise systems. This tag covers tax-themed phishing techniques, malware delivery methods, and defense strategies relevant to Windows users and enterprise IT security during tax season.
As Tax Day nears, threat actors are pulling out all the stops by deploying tax-themed phishing campaigns that combine age-old social engineering tricks with modern redirection techniques and sophisticated malware. In recent months, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team has observed several...