Aug 22 – Beverly Hills Public Safety Presentation on Fraud, Scams, and Identity Theft Prevention

The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed piece of legislation will harm young people who rely on the internet to access essential information and find community. That’s why we’re urging the Illinois…

Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after obtaining their email addresses from breached company databases. However, the messages appear to be sent…

ACR Stealer, an infostealer in circulation since 2024, is walking out of enterprise networks with saved browser passwords, live session tokens, PDFs, Microsoft 365 documents, and files from synced OneDrive and SharePoint folders. It gets in because someone pasted a command into a Run box and pressed Enter. Microsoft laid out two of the delivery…

Microsoft continued to be the most impersonated brand in Q2 2026, accounting for 23% of all brand phishing attempts. LinkedIn, Google, Apple, and Amazon followed, with the five brands together making up more than half of all brand phishing attempts tracked during the quarter, according to Check Point’s Q2 2026 Brand Phishing Report. Fake ChatGPT…

CVE-2026-8933: Ubuntu security flaw breaks Snap sandbox protections Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2026 Qualys disclosed CVE-2026-8933, a high-severity Ubuntu flaw that lets local attackers gain root privileges through a race condition in snap-confine. Qualys has disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS score of 7.8), affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04,…

The private data storage solution of file-sharing giant Progress Software has likely been compromised. The company informed some of its customers on July 10 that it was aware of “a credible external security threat targeting Progress ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers.” ShareFile is Progress’ flagship enterprise file-sharing service and Storage Zone Controller provides ShareFile customers with…