Newly found
Vulnerabilities03/31/08:
Internal Revenue Service Scams
We is aware of a series of scams circulating that are
related to the United States Internal Revenue Service.
The first of these attacks attempts to convince users to open bogus tax
documents that may contain malicious code. Additional attacks attempt to
convince users to follow a link in an email message to an unofficial tax
website that may contain malicious code or request personal information as part
of a phishing scam.
We encourage users to do the following to help mitigate the risks:
Install
anti-virus software and keep virus signature files up-to-date.
Do
not follow unsolicited links.
Block
executable and unknown file types at the email gateway.