Flash Report: New Tax Fraud Scheme Leveraging Employee Identification Numbers

Key Findings Details On February 11, 2024, well-regarded Russian-speaking threat actor “Journalist” disclosed a method of leveraging legitimate fintech services to collect information required for performing tax refund scams against U.S. citizens, on the Russian-speaking community “Coockie Pro”.   Journalist provided screenshots of the method in action, seeming to successfully obtain the EIN for a U.S.-based […]

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