Phishing emails impersonating South Korea's National Tax Service target VAT filing season
Phishing emails with sender addresses spoofed to the National Tax Service (NTS) domain were circulated in South Korea, targeting the value-added tax filing period. Demanding explanations regarding tax evasion reports, they attempted to steal information by getting recipients to run malicious attachments or log in to fake portal pages. The specific affected organisations and the scale of the damage were not disclosed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Phishing using sender addresses spoofed to the National Tax Service domain, malicious attachments and fake portal login pages
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
- If you’ve suffered harm, report it. Call 118 (no area code) for privacy violations, contact the police for financial losses, and apply for dispute mediation to seek compensation.Personal Information Infringement Report Centre ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- The circulation in South Korea of phishing emails impersonating the National Tax Service and demanding explanations regarding tax evasion reports came to light.
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