IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-31 Afternoon

IT Security News: Afternoon roundup, 2026-10-31

25
articles summarized
14
sources

Sources in this roundup

Silicon UK
6 article(s)
BleepingComputer
4 article(s)
CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
3 article(s)
The Hacker News
2 article(s)
Check Point Blog
1 article(s)
Cyber Security News
1 article(s)
Cybersecurity Headlines
1 article(s)
Cybersecurity News: Threats, Vulnerabilities & Privacy Updates – gHacks
1 article(s)
Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
1 article(s)
Panda Security Mediacenter
1 article(s)
Securelist
1 article(s)
Security Affairs
1 article(s)
darkreading
1 article(s)
www.infosecurity-magazine.com
1 article(s)

Most-mentioned keywords

data
5 mention(s)
hackers
4 mention(s)
breach
3 mention(s)
security
3 mention(s)
spending
3 mention(s)
backdoor
2 mention(s)
cisco
2 mention(s)
claude
2 mention(s)

Sources

  1. CISA Adds Actively Exploited GitLab RCE and Cisco Firewall DoS Flaws to KEV
  2. Cyberattack Clouds Political Spending Transparency in America
  3. New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
  4. HTTP2Shell: The Brotli Vulnerability That Extends Beyond Node.js
  5. MR ROBOT Malware-as-a-Service Targets Indian Bank Customers
  6. U.S. Data Centers Face Security Risks From Physical Attacks, Insiders and AI-Powered Hackers
  7. Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers
  8. Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon for Cyber Defenders First, With API Pricing From $2 per Million Tokens
  9. Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys
  10. Polymarket Users Lose $2.7 Million in Third-Party Script Hack
  11. From Beginner to Bug Hunter: Learning Cybersecurity in the AI Era.
  12. Are hackers after my Social Security benefits?
  13. Amazon Exceeds Spending Expectations Amid AI Outlays
  14. Cyber Vulnerabilities Besiege Italy, Absent Clear Cause
  15. Google Misses Expectations, Stoking Scrutiny Of AI Spending
  16. Trojanized Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Exposes Users to SSH Backdoor
  17. Meta Postpones New Commercial Terms After ‘Theft’ Complaints
  18. Hacker leaks data on more than 40,000 Homeland Security employees
  19. Canada’s Terrestar Joins Shared Satellite Venture
  20. French energy breach, Pentagon freezer hack, Japan Airlines breach
  21. Cursor Confirms Malicious Claude Code Extension With SSH Backdoor Was Available for 11 Hours
  22. Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"
  23. Hackers Post Data On US Immigration Agents
  24. Unknown APT uses NetamLoader to attack a Win10 OS customized for governments in Asia
  25. UK Government ‘Data Centre Covenant’ To Prioritise Critical Sites