Taxed and Hacked: How Your Company Could Be at Risk This Tax Season
Accountants aren’t the only ones busy during tax season. It has become so common for hackers to ramp up their criminal operations with tax-related campaigns that the IRS issues warnings about tax-related scams targeting consumers every year. However, enterprises are also vulnerable to tax season threats. Researchers have even discovered hackers distributing the Trickbot banking trojan through malicious Excel documents while disguising themselves as accounting, tax and payroll service firms. What’s new this season is the increase in file-sharing amongst enterprises, customers and partners....
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com