SC Magazine has reported that cybercriminals have been capitalizing on tax season by sending messages that appear to come from the Internal Revenue Service but actually lead to the data-stealing trojan Zeus.

According to the article, the messages ask users to follow a link and review their tax statement to fix errors related to unreported or under-reported income. The URL leads users to a variant of Zeus, which steals information from compromised systems and sends it back to attackers.

Read the full article posted by SC Magazine: Scammers capitalizing on tax season to spread Zeus