The Taxman Never Sleeps
Fortinet News, December 21st, 2022
For most people, taxes are a certainty. In the United States and Canada, tax forms are usually submitted by individuals and businesses in the spring (although, due to COVID, extensions were granted for anyone that asked for them).
So, our interest was piqued when we came across an e-mail that included a tax form seemingly from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in early November.
- Affected Platforms: Windows
- Impacted Users: Windows users
- Impact: Potential to deploy additional malware for additional purposes
- Severity Level: Medium
The e-mail FortiGuard Labs discovered was, unsurprisingly, malicious.