Complete DHS Report for February 24, 2014
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• Twelve people were injured in a crash involving
as many as 20 vehicles on Interstate 57 near Peotone, Illinois, February 20,
closing a 6-mile stretch of the highway for several hours. – WLS-TV 7
Chicago
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February 20, WLS-TV 7 Chicago – (Illinois) Multi-vehicle crash on
I-57 near Peotone injures 12. Twelve people were injured in a multi-vehicle
crash involving as many as 20 vehicles on Interstate 57 near Peotone February
20. Five accidents took place on northbound lanes and two accidents took place
on southbound lanes closing a 6-mile stretch of the highway for several hours.
Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=9439657
• A woman was taken into custody February 20
after opening fire and using a knife in an attack during an eviction hearing at
the Cedarville Rancheria tribal office in Alturas, California, killing 4 people
and injuring 2 others. – Associated Press; KRCR 7 Redding/Chico
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February 21, Associated Press; KRCR 7 Redding/Chico – (California) Police:
4 dead, 2 injured in N. California shooting. A woman was taken into custody
after opening fire and using a knife in an attack during an eviction hearing at
the Cedarville Rancheria tribal office in Alturas February 20, killing 4 people
and injuring 2 others. Source: http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/police-4-dead-2-injured-in-n-calif-shooting
• Twenty-five people were charged by federal
authorities February 20 for allegedly running schemes to bill the government’s
Medicaid program in Washington, D.C., for in-home health-care services that
were not provided. – Washington Post
19. February 20, Washington Post – (Washington, D.C.;
Maryland) More than 20 charged in federal crackdown on D.C. Medicaid fraud. Twenty-five
people were charged by federal authorities February 20 for allegedly running
separate, and sometimes competing, schemes to bill the government’s Medicaid
program in Washington, D.C. for in-home health-care services that were not
provided. The group is accused of recruiting Medicaid recipients to make false
claims for services, racking up tens of millions of dollars. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/more-than-20-charged-in-federal-crackdown-on-dc-medicaid-fraud-services-not-delivered/2014/02/20/22d19c48-9a5c-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html
• Adobe released an out-of-band update to
patch vulnerabilities including a zero-day, and researchers released a report
stating that the zero-day was used in an attack which targeted visitors of
multiple economic and foreign policy sites. – Softpedia See item 25
below in the Information Technology
Sector
Financial Services Sector
Nothing to
report
Information Technology Sector
24.
February 21, Softpedia – (International) Mistake made by BitCrypt
developers allows experts to recover encrypted files. Airbus researchers
discovered a new type of ransomware named BitCrypt and found a way to restore
infected, encrypted files after discovering the developers made a mistakenly
generated a 128-digit number instead of a 128-byte key. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mistake-Made-by-BitCrypt-Developers-Allows-Experts-to-Recover-Encrypted-Files-428605.shtml
25.
February 21, Softpedia – (International) Operation GreedyWonk: Flash
zero-day used in attack on visitors of foreign policy sites. Adobe released
an out-of-band update to patch three vulnerabilities including a zero-day, and
researchers from FireEye released a report stating that the zero-day was used
in an attack dubbed “GreedyWonk” which targeted visitors of multiple economic
and foreign policy sites. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Operation-GreedyWonk-Flash-Zero-Day-Used-in-Attack-on-Visitors-of-Foreign-Policy-Sites-428544.shtml
26.
February 21, Softpedia – (International) Leak of iBanking bot source
code opens up new opportunities for cybercriminals. RSA researchers found
that the source code for the server-side software of the iBanking mobile bot
was leaked on a cybercrime forum, as well as a builder that can be used to
unpack the existing APK file and repack it with different configurations.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leak-of-iBanking-Mobile-Bot-Source-Code-Opens-Up-New-Opportunities-for-Cybercriminals-428648.shtml
27.
February 21, Softpedia – (International) Massive DDoS attack launched
against Namecheap’s DNS platform. Namecheap announced that it suffered of a
massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, targeting around 300
domains in its DNS platform. The company mitigated the attack and restored
services about 11 hours later. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Massive-DDOS-Attack-Launched-Against-Namechap-s-DNS-Platform-428467.shtml
28.
February 20, Threatpost – (International) Google fixes 28 security
flaws in Chrome 33. Google released Chrome 33 which included fixes for 28
security vulnerabilities and a number of high-severity bugs. Source: http://threatpost.com/google-fixes-28-security-flaws-in-chrome-33/104391
Communications Sector
Nothing to report