Scammers use tax-themed emails to infect PCs with malware

Watch out for tax scams popping up in your email inbox. They can often be rigged to secretly install malware onto your computer.

As the April 15th filing deadline approaches, IBM says it's recently detected a wave of tax-themed phishing messages targeting both businesses and personal email addresses. The emails have been crafted to deliver a Trojan called Trickbot, which can steal bank account information from your internet sessions.

According to IBM, the scammers have been delivering the Trickbot Trojan by pretending to send emails from well-known payroll and HR firms such as Paychex and ADP. Unlike shoddy spam email campaigns, the messages from the scammers will generally be free of spelling or grammar mistakes. Read more...

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