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IRS Encourages Poor Cryptography

18

Feb

2015

I’m not sure what to make of this, or even what it means. The #irs has a standard called IDES: International Data Exchange Service: “The International Data Exchange Service (IDES) is an electronic delivery point where Financial Institutions (FI) and Host Country Tax Authorities (HCTA) can transmit and exchange FATCA data with the United States.” […]

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Sinkholing of Trojan Downloader Zortob.B reveals fast growing malware threat

08

Mar

2013

Any malicious code that has infected 25,000 computers–60% of them in the United States–and achieved a spam rate of 80 million messages per hour, which in turn lead to 1,400 compromised websites, is a threat worthy of analysis. Such is the case with the malware we detect as Win32/TrojanDownloader.Zortob.B. This computer Trojan can steal credentials […]

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IRS spam / thebummwrap.net

17

Sep

2012

IRS spam / thebummwrap.net This fake IRS spam leads to malware on thebummwrap.net:From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:fascinatesh07@deltamar.net] Sent: 17 September 2012 15:30Subject: Your federal tax transaction has been not acceptedYour State Tax transaction (ID: 60498447771657), recently initiated from your bank account was canceled by The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. Not Accepted Tax transactionTax Transaction […]

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