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There's not actually more spam during Tax Season — it's just different spam
Talos Takes
English - March 10, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutes - 7.03 MBTechnology security cyber news security news cyber security news cisco talos snort incident response news roundup Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Public perception is such that it's assumed we just get more spam in the U.S. during two major times of the year — Tax Season and Black Friday. But over the past few years, this trend has become a thing of the past. With Tax Day approaching for Americans, there won't be more spam emails coming their way than usual, it'll just be different. Eric Peterson from Talos' email detection team joins the show for Jon's triumphant return from parental leave to talk about tax-related spam. Eric talks about topics he's seen so far this year and why it's a myth that spam volume changes as Tax Day approaches.