Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 3 July 2023

Faith-Based Security Headlines

These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against, and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.

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• Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter considered other targets, psychologist testifies | CNN

• WA: Innocent bystander struck by stray bullet following altercation in Puyallup church parking lot | KOMO (komonews.com)

• MD: Police charge 3 in hate crimes after vandalism at churches (wbaltv.com)

• Atlanta church with Pride flag vandalized again (ajc.com)

• Western District of Michigan | Member Of White Supremacist Group Charged For Allegedly Defacing Synagogue With Neo-Nazi Symbols | United States Department of Justice

• GA: Homeless Man Attacks Another at Church – Coosa Valley News

• CA: Firefighters help save burning church in San Jose – NBC Bay Area

• Cook County Judge William Hooks removed from ‘judicial duties’ after accusations of racist comments: attorney Matthew Fakhoury – ABC7 Chicago

• Baltimore County residents find anti-Semitic flyers throughout community: ‘An awful feeling’ – CBS Baltimore (cbsnews.com)

• Outrage soars as swastikas fly outside synagogues and Disney World – JNS.org

• Revealed: Christian legal non-profit funds US anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion organizations | The far right | The Guardian

• Supreme Court rules for designer who refused to work with gay couples | AP News

• Proud Boys must pay $1 million to church over destroyed of Black Lives Matter sign – The Washington Post

• Texas pastor David Lloyd Walther pleads guilty to downloading child porn (nypost.com)

• Report: Moscow declares former chief rabbi a ‘foreign agent’ (israelnationalnews.com)

• Nigeria: RCCG Pastor Killed, Seven Church Members Kidnapped as Gunmen Attack Church in Ogun – Gistmania

• UK: Firebug who torched Lanarkshire church hours before a Sunday service jailed for a year – Daily Record

• France: Nanterre protests: Thugs vandalise French Holocaust memorial – The Jewish Chronicle (thejc.com)

• France: Four men sentenced over French far-right terror plot – The Local

Select All-Hazards Stories

• DC police search for suspects in string of explosions at local businesses – WTOP News

• Two dead, 28 injured in Baltimore block party mass shooting, police say (nbcnews.com)

• Active Shooter Preparedness Webinar Training | CISA

• FINAL_NCSC_SOF_Bulletin_PRC_Laws.pdf (dni.gov) (Read before traveling to China.)

• US authorities warn on China’s new counter-espionage (The Register)

• Traveling to France during the protests: What you need to know | CNN

• Travel Advisories (state.gov)

• Travelers’ Health | CDC

• The wait for US passports is creating travel purgatory and snarling summer plans (msn.com)

• Explained: Lethal device that turns handgun into machine gun sold openly on Twitter, Facebook – World News (wionews.com)

• Locally Heavy Rainfall, Severe Weather and Extreme Heat National Weather Service 

• 200,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Attacks Exploiting Flaw in ‘Ultimate Member’ Plugin – SecurityWeek

• 300,000+ Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to critical FortiOS RCE bug (bleepingcomputer.com)

• Millions Impacted by the MOVEit Mass Hacks, and the Toll is Rising – CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents

• The Metaverse and Homeland Security: Opportunities and Risks of Persistent Virtual Environments | RAND

• BlackCat ransomware pushes Cobalt Strike via WinSCP search ads

• MITRE Updates CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses – SecurityWeek

• NCSC’s cyber security training for staff now available – NCSC.GOV.UK

• #StopRansomware: CL0P Ransomware Gang Exploits CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Vulnerability | CISA

• Published | Zero Day Initiative ZDI Updates

• SE Asia: War on Terrorism: The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG): An In-Depth Analysis of their Origins, Tactics, and Regional Impact (terrorism-online.blogspot.com)

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