Things Not to be Thankful For
The holidays are a favorite time for malware authors to strike. They figure everyone's on vacation and they'll have an easier time getting into inboxes. Well, they were wrong about AppRiver, here's the latest Thanksgiving offering from the ZBot or Zeus trojan.
As you can see it's using the same ploy it tried a week or so ago, pretending to be from the IRS with a claim that you have under-paid your taxes. The email arrives with a link that brings you to this website.
As you can see, Zeus did a good job of dressing up the site to make it appear to be legit. They've customized both the email and the link on the landing page to include the domain to which the email was sent through the use of tokens. If you'll notice in the address bar however, the site your on may appear to be the IRS, but the actual domain you've encountered is a little further in - not the IRS.
Remain vigilant over the holidays, and don't go wily nily clicking on links in your emails when you get back to work on Monday.

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