OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim. The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the...Read More

About Angela Harmantas Angela Harmantas is an Editor at Proactive. She has over 15 years of experience covering the equity markets in North America, with a particular focus on junior resource stocks. Angela has reported from numerous countries around the world, including Canada, the US, Australia, Brazil, Ghana, and South Africa for leading trade publications....Read More

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign nationals responsible for or complicit in cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime. “This policy targets individuals responsible for, or complicit in, cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime, such as those involved in cyberscams, and sextortion,” Rubio said in a statement. Certain immediate family members...Read More

A Cl0p ransomware affiliate has been observed exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in PTC’s product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms Windchill and FlexPLM. Tracked as CVE-2026-12569 (CVSS score of 9.3), the security defect is described as a deserialization of untrusted data issue that can be exploited without authentication. Patched on June 17, the...Read More

Benjamin Morris, former interim executive director at Quad City Arts, was arrested on 30 felonies relating to child pornography Monday night. ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The former interim executive director of Quad City Arts was arrested on 30 felony child pornography charges.  33-year-old Benjamin Morris is accused of possessing and disseminating child pornography involving children...Read More

PHOENIX — The Valley-based Starbright Foundation has a warning for families about a disturbing new form of financial sextortion involving artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, ABC15 Mornings Anchor Kaley O’Kelley shared a warning about predators using social media, gaming platforms and private messaging apps to target teenage boys. Financial sextortion typically begins when someone posing...Read More

Ariana Grande is suing a group for leaking unreleased music and footage related to an alleged hacking in 2024. The Grammy winner, 33, on Monday wants to “uncover” the “currently unknown and unscrupulous” group of people behind the phishing and hacking of accounts of photographers and producers with whom Grande collaborated, according to a filing...Read More

A decade ago, the biggest cybersecurity challenge organizations faced was protecting human employees from phishing emails, credential theft, and ransomware. Today, that challenge is evolving rapidly. A new member of the workforce has arrived, not a person, but an intelligent software agent capable of making decisions, interacting with systems, and executing business processes with little...Read More

The Coca-Cola Company has announced that its milk brand, Fairlife, has resumed most of its production in the United States following a ransomware attack that temporarily halted operations. The attack, attributed to the ransomware-as-a-service group Anubis, involved unauthorized access to Fairlife’s production systems. Anubis claimed responsibility, stating they locked servers and stole up to 1TB...Read More