The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has released a blog post describing an increase in malicious cyber activity from the Iranian group known as Phosphorus. These threat actors are exploiting password reset or account recovery features to take control of targeted email accounts. CDSBureau Inc. encourages users to review the Microsoft blog for additional information Read more about Iranian Cyber Attacks on Targeted Email Accounts – Microsoft[…]

The United Kingdom (UK) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released an alert on advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages administrators to review the NCSC Alert Read more about Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Actors Exploiting Vulnerabilities in VPN Applications[…]

This post is about the free conference and free travel scam. CDSBureau has identified many fake organization sites and many hotel sites that are involved in fake conference scam and luring people using free travel and free conference offer. They will ask you to book a hotel and send hotel money. That hotel, organization, and Read more about One Scammer is Running Many Fake Conferences and Fake Hotel Booking Scams[…]

This post is about the employment scam by markishospital.com. This article is for you, if you received an employment offer in the name of Markis Hospital, San Fransisco, USA and any email pretending to be from the US Embassy from your country. Do not reply to the email or call anyone in that email. DO Read more about Employment Scammers Using Fake Hospital markishospital.com and US Embassy[…]

Most mid or large size enterprises don’t have a formal Knowledge Management team and most of their associates think that Knowledge Management is information management. When technology is changing at a very rapid pace and employees are tasked with larger goals, knowledge management becomes a daily necessity for any organization. One employee gains a knowledge Read more about Why does an enterprise, with 50+ associates, need Knowledge Management[…]

CDSBureau received information from people that they received call from Fed Ex or Apple Support (800-275-2273). But in reality, the call was not from a real company. Scammers have started spoofing phone numbers. They change their caller-ID to a known company, so your caller-ID would show a real company phone number. However, the person calling Read more about Apple support scam call from 1-800-275-2273[…]

There are predatory conferences that earn money using huge registration fees etc. Such conferences also steal papers from people, as these predators actually don’t exist. Here are a few external references to predatory conferences. Wikipedia provides good information on organization that are involved in predatory conferences. As per Wikipedia “OMICS Group is an organizer of Read more about Stay away from conference scammers / predatory conferences[…]

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 wehro.org and diamondvalentinodallashotels.com sites. This article is for you, if you received such email or are a victim of this scam. Scammers are now Read more about Conference scam from WEHRO and Dimond Valentino Dallas Hotel[…]

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[…]