Microsoft Threat Intelligence unveils targets and innovative tactics amidst tax season

Microsoft Threat Intelligence describes active tax-season phishing campaigns that impersonate employers, tax authorities, and payment processors to trick victims into opening HTML attachments or visiting fake landing pages which deliver malicious executables; observed payloads include information-stealing malware that attempts to harvest credentials. The report summarizes common social-engineering tactics, at-risk groups, and defensive recommendations (phishing awareness, MFA, email filtering).