Pictured: TurboTax headquarters. The Mount Locker ransomware group is reportedly targeting victims’ files that feature extensions associated with TurboTax software from Intuit. (Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Ransomware actors are targeting tax software files in a bid to dig up highly sensitive data and increase leverage over their victims, including small businesses whose efforts to be tax-compliant could be seriously disrupted.
Late last week, security researcher Vitali Kremez reportedly revealed to BleepingComputer that the recently discovered ransomware program Mount Locker has been targeting files featuring extensions associated with TurboTax software. And just last month, Sophos separately reported ..
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