The Internal Revenue Service expands identity protection to all tax‑payers

The Internal Revenue Service expands identity protection to all tax‑payers

U.S. tax-payers will be able to enroll in the Identity Protection PIN program that was previously available only to certain users starting mid-January. U.S. tax-payers will be able to enroll in the Identity Protection PIN program that was previously available only to certain users starting mid-January   In an effort to battle various flavors of tax fraud and tax-related…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes 58 flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes 58 flaws

The last Patch Tuesday of the year brings another fresh batch of fixes for Microsoft products and while the number may be lower the patches are no less important. In the last Patch Tuesday of the year Microsoft has rolled out fixes to no fewer than 58 vulnerabilities across more than ten products including Windows and…
Operation StealthyTrident: corporate software under attack

Operation StealthyTrident: corporate software under attack

LuckyMouse, TA428, HyperBro, Tmanger and ShadowPad linked in Mongolian supply-chain attack ESET researchers discovered that chat software called Able Desktop, part of a business management suite popular in Mongolia and used by 430 government agencies in Mongolia (according to Able), was used to deliver the HyperBro backdoor (commonly used by LuckyMouse), the Korplug RAT (also known as PlugX), and a RAT called Tmanger (which was first documented by NTT Security and was used during Operation Lagtime IT campaigns attributed to TA428 by Proofpoint). A connection with…