This article is about how there has been a new wave of phishing scams, and these scammers are making fake email or texts that looks like it came from a federal agency. More importantly, scammers are registering web addresses that resemble official government domains. These domains contain phrases like "U. S Customs," "U. S Tariffs," or "tariff payment."  This type of phishing scam claims you recently bought something online and now you owe a tariff fee. It uses the tactic of urgency to pressure you into paying immediately through a link to avoid a penalty, fine, or delay. This affects any person who may be gullible and not educated in spotting out scams. We can first take steps in the right direction by doing recommended research on how to deal with sketchy emails we usually don't get from a service that's regularly attended to.  Another step would be to analyze the email yourself for any traditional scammer mishaps.

This article is about how PDF files received from scammers/hackers can secretly be viruses, payloads of viruses. Cybercriminals have taken the advantage of how PDF's are widely used in personal and professional settings and have figured out how to create different types of PDF viruses with malicious code and infect documents. This kind of virus scam contains a number of different viruses that operate in various manners. Some can manipulate data or fully erase it from one's device. Trojans may gather data stored on someone's device and send it back to the scammer. Who is mainly affected are employee companies who consistently use, edit, and access PDF files. To prevent such companies from being at risk, there can be specific rules made for employees to follow so there won't be a potential raid of hacking on company computers and vital files.