Hackers orchestrated a highly coordinated, global attack on ATM cards involving the theft of a staggering $9 million from bank customers — and they could strike again, according to an investigation by FOX 5 TV in New York. Customers’ personal information might also have been compromised in what federal agents are calling one of the most well-coordinated such schemes they’ve seen, MyFOXNY.com reported. The FBI said it uncovered the plot and is investigating. The alleged hackers are still at large and could orchestrate another attack. In a matter of hours, thieves struck ATMs from 49 different cities — including New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Moscow and Montreal — just after 8 p.m. EST on Nov. 8, according to the FBI. Part of the heist was caught on security camera images obtained by the TV station. The photos show people the FBI calls “cashers” — low-level participants in the plot who allegedly used bogus ATM cards with stolen information — at the machines. The scheme worked as follows: Plotters hacked into a computer system for a company called RBS WorldPay, which allows employers to transfer workers’ pay directly to a payroll card. The scam artists were then able to infiltrate the system and steal personal data needed to make duplicate ATM cards. Anyone with information is asked to call the Chicago FBI office at (312) 421-6700.
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The situation along the border continues to deteriorate. Mexican drug gangs are breaking into Tijuana police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war. “You’re next, bastard … We’re going to get you,” an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio in the city of Tijuana after naming a policeman. The man also threatened a second cop by name and played foot-stomping “narcocorrido” music, popular with drug cartels, over the airwaves. “No one can help them,” an officer named Jorge said of his threatened colleagues as he heard the threats in his patrol car. Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads. Cartels killed some 530 police in Mexico last year, some of them corrupt officers who were working for rival gangs. Others were killed in shoot-outs or murdered for working against the gangs or refusing to turn a blind eye to drug shipments. Violence has hit shocking levels in Tijuana, over the border from San Diego, since President Felipe Calderon launched an army crackdown on traffickers in late 2006, stirring up new wars between rival cartels over smuggling routes. The drug war is scaring tourists and investors away from northern Mexico, forcing some businesses to shutter just as the country heads into recession this year. Badly-paid Tijuana municipal police, often accused of collaborating with rival wings of the local Arellano Felix cartel, are badly demoralized, senior officers say. “These death threats are part of the psychological warfare that organized crime is using against officers,” said Tijuana police chief Gustavo Huerta. “Before, the gangs began infiltrating the radio after a police execution, which was bad enough, but now they are doing it beforehand and the force feels terrorized,” he said. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=7920f54b-82a8-4764-b8ee-bc674b8fee74) This story comes to us via Homeland Share this post |
On February 11, 2009, at 7:30 pm. The Christian Action Network will premiere a new documentary, Homegrown Jihad, at the Landmark Theater in Washington, DC. There is no charge to attend the viewing. According to the press release, “The American public was never supposed to know. The 2006 Justice Department document that exposes 35 terrorist training compounds in the U.S. was marked “Dissemination Restricted to Law Enforcement.” All the copies of Sheik Muburak Gilani’s terrorist training video, “Soldiers of Allah,” had been confiscated and sealed, all of them, that is, except one that Christian Action Network now reveals in the documentary Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.” Frontpage MagazineRyan Mauro founder of WorldThreats.com and a national security researcher for the Christian Action Network was recently interviewed by Frontpage Magazine and discussed the documentary. FP: Ryan Mauro, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Mauro: Thank you Jamie. FP: We’re here today to discuss “Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist Camps Around U.S.,” the new documentary being released by the Christian Action Network. Tell us about it. Mauro: This documentary is premiering at Washington D.C.’s Landmark Theater on February 11, at 7:30 PM. It is free to attend and I strongly encourage everyone in the area to come, and those out of the area to go to ChristianAction.org and order a copy. The Christian Action Network (CAN) is a non-profit organization and I personally will not see a penny from the sales. This documentary is simply too important; the threat too severe; and the public too unaware for me to not promote this is any way possible and call myself a patriotic American. “Homegrown Jihad” documents the networks of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a terrorist group run by a radical Muslim leader in Lahore, Pakistan named Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, an individual who, as I said in my last interview, does us the favor of not hiding his true colors. While he casts himself as a peace-loving Muslim, his actions and the actions of his network are anything but. In the documentary, we show a secret videotape, one which Gilani strictly instructs his followers to keep hidden, where he personally engages in terrorist training, from killing guards to hijacking vehicles to setting off explosives. On this tape, he says that those seeking to “join one of the most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare” can contact any of his “Muslims of America” compounds in the United States, almost all of which still operate today. [...] Christian Action Network Press Release This story comes to us via Homeland Share this post
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