Complete DHS Report for January
23, 2014
Daily Report
• Thirteen men were charged with allegedly
placing Bluetooth-equipped skimming devices on gas station pumps in Texas,
Georgia, and South Carolina and using fraudulent cards made with the data
obtained to steal and launder over $2 million. – Ars Technica See item 3
below in the Financial Services Sector
• A semi-truck carrying hazardous materials
caught fire at a Knouse Foods Cooperative plant in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania,
forcing the building to be evacuated and sending 11 people to the hospital
January 21. – Hanover Evening Sun
10.
January 21, Hanover Evening Sun – (Pennsylvania) Chemical blaze in
Orrtanna sends 11 to hospitals. A semi-truck carrying hazardous materials
caught fire at a Knouse Foods Cooperative plant in Orrtanna January 21, forcing
the building to be evacuated and sending 11 people to the hospital. A shelter-in-place
order temporarily issued for residents living within one-half mile of the plant
was lifted several hours later and the plant was scheduled to reopen January
23. Source: http://www.eveningsun.com/local/ci_24956056/911-explosion-tractor-trailer-fire-forces-evacuation-orrtanna
• A huge snow storm that stretched from
Kentucky to New England prompted schools to close across several States and
roughly 1,400 flight cancellations nationwide. – Associated Press
17.
January 22, Associated Press – (National) Snow swirls up east coast,
leaving a bitter trail. A large snow storm January 21 that stretched from
Kentucky to New England prompted schools to close January 22 across several
States and roughly 1,400 flights to be cancelled nationwide. Source: http://news.msn.com/us/snow-swirls-up-east-coast-leaving-a-bitter-trail
• Researchers identified a cyberespionage
campaign targeting energy, government, and defense organizations in the U.S.,
Europe, and Asia that appears to be affiliated with the Russian government. – Softpedia See item 21
below in the Information Technology
Sector
Details
Financial Services Sector
3. January 21, Ars
Technica – (National) Feds: Thieves with Bluetooth-enabled data skimmers
stole over $2 million. Thirteen men were charged January 21 with allegedly
placing Bluetooth-equipped skimming devices on gas station pumps in Texas,
Georgia, and South Carolina and using fraudulent cards made with the data
obtained to steal over $2 million. The accused then allegedly deposited the
stolen money in New York bank accounts and withdrew the stolen money in
California or Nevada. Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/feds-thieves-with-bluetooth-data-skimmers-stole-over-2-million/
4. January 21,
Arizona Republic – (Arizona) Tempe police: 105 arrested in check-scam
sweep. Police in Tempe announced the arrest of 105 suspects January 21 for
allegedly being part of a large-scale check fraud scheme that stole around
$240,000. The investigation began in March 2012 and identified five alleged
check mills that were loosely connected. Source: http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/20140121tempe-police-arrested-check-scam-sweep-abrk.html
5. January 21,
Boston Globe – (Massachusetts) West Roxbury family pleads guilty to
multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Three members of a West Roxbury family
pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme through a firm called Viking Financial
Group that cost at least 42 victims $10 million or more. Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/01/21/west-roxbury-family-pleads-guilty-multi-million-dollar-ponzi-scheme/99Px0kHIvuiQFUTHFCtI8O/story.html
For an additional
story, see item 20 below:
20. January 21,
Krebs on Security – (National) DHS alerts contractors to bank data
theft. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman stated that
documents belonging to 114 contractor organizations that bid on a DHS Science
& Technology division contract could have been disclosed by a security
breach that occurred in late 2013, with 16 documents containing banking
information. Source: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/dhs-alerts-contractors-to-bank-data-theft/
Information Technology Sector
21. January 22, Softpedia – (International) Russia
accused of conducting global cyber espionage campaign. Researchers at
CrowdStrike identified a large cyber espionage campaign targeting energy,
government, defense, and other organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia
operated by a group dubbed Energetic Bear that appears to be affiliated with
the Russian government. The campaign has been monitored since August 2012 and
relies on the HAVEX RAT and SYSMain RAT remote access trojans (RATs.) Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russia-Accused-of-Conducting-Global-Cyber-Espionage-Campaign-419457.shtml
22. January 22, Threatpost – (International) XSS filter
bypass bug found in Chrome and Safari. A researcher at Eleven Paths warned
of a flaw in anti-cross site scripting (XSS) filters in the Chrome and Safari
browsers that could be exploited to allow an attacker to bypass the filters and
use XSS flaws on certain Web sites to compromise users’ systems. The researcher
released a proof-of-concept for the vulnerability. Source: http://threatpost.com/xss-filter-bypass-bug-found-in-chrome-and-safari/103761
23. January 21, PCWorld – (International) Syrian
Electronic Army hacks Microsoft’s Office Blogs site mere hours after redesign. Attackers
claiming affiliation with the Syrian Electronic Army hacktivist group
compromised Microsoft’s official Office Blogs site January 20. Microsoft reset
the site’s account and regained control later that day. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089820/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-microsofts-office-blogs-site.html
Communications Sector
24.
January 21, Eagle Valley Enterprise – (Colorado) Tower outage affects
local cell phone users. AT&T customers in Vail were without cell phone
service for nearly 11 hours January 21-22 after a degraded tower knocked out
service and data functions. Crews were able to repair a landline connecting the
cell site to the rest of the network that had failed. Source: http://www.vaildaily.com/news/9847952-113/service-edwards-phone-vail
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