The US Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today warned taxpayers and tax professionals about a new IRS impersonation scam campaign spreading nationally on email. Remember: the IRS does not send unsolicited emails and never emails taxpayers about the status of refunds. The IRS this week detected this new scam as taxpayers began Read more about Security Summit warns of new IRS impersonation email scam[…]
Do not be fooled by free conference and free airline ticket scam! Nothing is free in this world! This post is about the free conference and free travel offer fraud from iswfoundation.org and denisecarrerahotel.com sites. This article is for you, if you received an email from them or are a victim of this scam. Scammers Read more about Conference scam from iswfoundation.org and denisecarrerahotel.com[…]
This post is about the free conference and travel offer fraud from seccorganization.org and goldenwilliamdallashotel.com sites. This article is for you, if you received such email or are a victim of this scam. Scammers are now getting a little more sophisticated and registering multiple fake websites to make a scam look real. Recently, one email Read more about Scammers Using Free Fake Conference and a Fake Hotel[…]
Latest FedEx package scam Scammers are calling people from 201-413-1324 phone number. This appears to be a genuine FedEx number, but somehow either they are able to fake their caller id to a FedEx number or a few FedEx associates might be misusing it. CDSBureau does not know the origin of these calls but scammers’ Read more about Scammers using FedEx phone number 201-413-1324 for phishing or scam[…]
Drupal has released updates addressing a vulnerability in Drupal 8 and 7. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to sensitive information. CDSBureau encourages Drupal users to review the following information and update their Drupal installation as soon as possible. Date: 2018-April-18 Security risk: Moderately critical 12∕25 AC:Complex/A:User/CI:Some/II:Some/E:Theoretical/TD:Default CKEditor, a third-party JavaScript library Read more about Drupal core – Moderately critical – Cross Site Scripting – SA-CORE-2018-003[…]
Equifax reported that there were a massive data breach that could impact 143 million customers in USA, Canada, and UK. Most of the affected customers are in USA only. The breach started in May 2017 and Equifax learned about this on July 29, 2017. Equifax is providing free credit monitoring for an year to all Read more about Massive Equifax 2017 data breach could impact millions in USA, UK, and Canada[…]
MacKeeper Security Research Center reported today that Kromtech Security Center found two cloud based file repositories (AWS S3 buckets with public access) that appear to be connected with the BroadSoft Inc. The two repositories contained thousands and thousands records and reports for a number of BroadSoft Inc. clients with Time Warner Cable (TWC) appearing to Read more about Time Warner Cable user data is leaked over internet[…]
DHS OIG hotline telephone number has been used in scam to obtain personally identifiable information. The perpetrators of the scam represent themselves as employees with “U.S. Immigration” and can alter caller ID systems to make it appear that the call is coming from the DHS OIG Hotline telephone number (1-800-323-8603). Stay safe using the following Read more about Fraud Alert: DHS OIG Hotline Telephone Number Has Been Used in Scam[…]
Hackers are sending malicious text messages to iPhones. These text messages look like from Apple Inc and ask to click on a link to activate the locked account. The message are like: (Apple Center): Your device user-ID associated with <…….> has ben locked due to failed login attempts. Tap <URL ending with hVDThF> for validation. Read more about Alert! iPhone Text Message Scam[…]