Tuesday, February 5, 2013
   
Complete DHS Daily Report for February 5, 2013

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 • Bank of America experienced online banking service interruptions lasting for roughly 10 hours February 1, citing an internal systems issue as the cause of the service outage. – American Banker See item 2 below in the Banking and Finance Sector

 • U.S. Department of Energy officials confirmed that hackers breached 14 computer servers and 20 workstations at their Washington D.C. headquarters nearly 2 weeks ago, compromising several hundred individuals’ personal information. – Washington Free Beacon

20. February 4, Washington Free Beacon – (National) Energy Department networks hit by sophisticated cyber attack. U.S. Department of Energy officials confirmed that hackers breached 14 computer servers and 20 workstations at their Washington D.C. headquarters nearly 2 weeks ago, compromising several hundred individuals’ personal information. Source: http://freebeacon.com/cyber-breach/

 • Twitter reported February 1 that it had uncovered account compromises that may have affected 250,000 users. – Wired.com See item 29 below in the Information Technology Sector

 • The Super Bowl was halted for 34 minutes because of a power outage February 3. – Associated Press

32. February 3, Associated Press – (Louisiana) Super Bowl power outage: Lights go out at Superdome during Ravens-49ers Super Bowl. The Super Bowl was halted for 34 minutes because of a power outage February 3. The cause of the outage which affected only part of the Superdome remains unknown. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/super-bowl-power-outage-superdome-ravens-49ers_n_2612757.html

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Banking and Finance Sector

2. February 4, American Banker – (National) Bank of America suffers website, mobile outages. Bank of America experienced online banking service interruptions lasting for roughly 10 hours February 1, citing an internal systems issue as the cause of the service outage. Customers were alerted that their information remained safe despite a group claiming responsibility for the attacks. Source: http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_23/b-of-a-sustains-website-mobile-outages-1056420-1.html

3. February 4, Help Net Security – (Washington; International) Dutch hacker imprisoned for trafficking 100,000 credit cards. A Dutch national was sentenced in the U.S. for his part in a scheme where fraudulent credit cards were produced with information obtained from hacking into Seattle-area companies’ systems and point-of-sale devices. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14351

4. February 2, Softpedia – (International) $140 PiceBOT botnet targets Latin American bank customers. Kaspersky researchers identified a new botnet being sold on underground markets in the past month called PiceBOT that is targeting bank customers in Latin America. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/140-PiceBOT-Botnet-Targets-Latin-American-Bank-Customers-326158.shtml

5. February 1, Associated Press – (California) Folsom man pleads guilty in $40M investment scam. The president of Equity Investment Management and Trading Inc. pleaded guilty in Sacramento to a scheme that defrauded more than 300 investors of about $40 million. Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/01/5159158/folsom-man-pleads-guilty-in-40m.html

For another story, see item 26 below in the Information Technology Sector

Information Technology Sector

26. February 4, Help Net Security – (International) The rise of mobile advertising malware toolkits. Researchers at FortiGuard Labs published a report showing increased use of variants of the Android Plankton ad kit in both fraud and hacktivist campaigns. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2398

27. February 1, Reuters – (International) Estonian pleads guilty in U.S. court to Internet advertising scam. An Estonian national pleaded guilty in U.S. court for his involvement in a malware-based clickjacking scam that netted him and his co-conspirators $14 million. Source: http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/New_York/News/2013/02_-_February/Estonian_pleads_guilty_in_U_S__court_to_Internet_advertising_scam/

28. February 1, Softpedia – (International) “Poetry Group” hackers use Citadel to target government offices worldwide. McAfee published a report on the use of the Citadel trojan by the “Poetry Group’ cybercriminal team to collect information from various governments’ offices. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Poetry-Group-Hackers-Use-Citadel-to-Target-Government-Offices-Worldwide-326065.shtml

29. February 1, Wired.com – (International) Twitter hacked: Company says 250K users may have been affected. Twitter reported February 1 that it had uncovered account compromises that may have affected 250,000 users. Twitter reset passwords and revoked tokens for users believed to be affected. Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/twitter-hacked/

30. February 1, ComputerWorld – (International) Oracle releases Java patch update. Oracle released an ahead-of-schedule patch for Java SE to close 50 vulnerabilities, some of them critical. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236469/Oracle_releases_Java_patch_update

Communications Sector

31. February 3, Duluth News Tribune – (Minnesota) Power outage knocks several Duluth TV, radio stations off air. A two-hour power outage in the vicinity of Duluth’s antenna farm left Minnesota Power customers without several television channels and radio stations while the company worked to restore service. Source: http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2013-02-03&val=998793&cat=service

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