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United States Tax Court Spear-Phishing Attack

US-CERT is aware of public reports of a spear-phishing attack circulating via email messages that claim to be petitions from the US Tax Court. These messages appear to be legitimate because they may contain very specific information about the message recipient. The message requests that the user follow a link to download additional information about the petition, but if a user clicks on this link, malicious code may be installed on the system.

US-CERT encourages users to do the following to help mitigate the risk:

Read more: US-CERT Current Activity

 







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