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Threat level on 31 October 2026

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Blacknote threat level

020406080100 55 / 100 ELEVATED

Threat profile

Ransomware76Exploitation62Breaches8Warnings…Community94

Last 7 days

56SuMoTuWeThFrSa
  • 0–19Low
  • 20–39Guarded
  • 40–59Elevated
  • 60–79High
  • 80–100Severe
  • Ransomware activity (weight 25%): 76 of 100, 44 victims claimed in 24 h
  • Actively exploited vulnerabilities (weight 25%): 62 of 100, 10 newly exploited (7 d) · 29 critical CVEs (7 d)
  • Confirmed data breaches (weight 20%): 8 of 100, 1 breaches added (7 d) · 92 incident reports (7 d)
  • Official warnings (weight 15%): collecting, 0 NCSC warnings (14 d)
  • Community signals (weight 15%): 94 of 100, 108 HN stories

Updated 31 Oct, 01:30 UTC · Based on 4 of 5 components

Events that day

  1. RansomLookRansomware
    44 new victims claimed on ransomware leak sites in the last 24 hours

    17 active groups. Claims are unverified; victims are not named here.

  2. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-117656 in pow-auth (CVSS 9.3)

    Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data vulnerability in the Sign in with Apple strategy in pow-auth Assent allows an…

  3. RansomLookRansomware
    42 new victims claimed on ransomware leak sites in the last 24 hours

    15 active groups. Claims are unverified; victims are not named here.

  4. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-63377 in fctr-id (CVSS 9.8)

    TAKO AI Agent for Okta is a local-first AI agent that helps Okta administrators query tenant data using natural language. Prior to…

  5. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-78403 in Thalesgroup (CVSS 9.3)

    Stack-based buffer overflow and missing authorization vulnerability in Thales Sentinel Keys Server on Windows allows Overflow Buffers.…

  6. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-116241 in pgadmin.org (CVSS 9.4)

    pgAdmin 4's Import/Export Data tool wraps a user's query export in a psql \copy (...) TO command and checks that the query's parentheses…

  7. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-116238 in pgadmin.org (CVSS 9.2)

    In server mode pgAdmin 4 locks an internal account after MAX_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS failed logins (3 by default). The limit could be bypassed,…

  8. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-90888 in leadsnap (CVSS 9.8)

    Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in LeadSnap <= 1.25 versions.

  9. BleepingComputerVulnerability
    Critical Linux kernel flaw allows remote root attacks on MPTCP servers

    Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely…

  10. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-62849 in mqttsnet (CVSS 9.1)

    ThingLinks is an enterprise IoT platform. Prior to 1.4.0, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the `TDengine TDS APIs` allows…

  11. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-61620 in seancorfield (CVSS 9.8)

    HoneySQL turns Clojure data structures into SQL. From 2.0.0 until 2.7.1392, applications that pass user input or other arbitrary data into…

  12. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-55598 in madeofpendletonwool (CVSS 9.1)

    PinePods is a complete, self-hosted podcast management system written in Rust. Prior to 0.9.0, an authenticated user can subscribe to an…

  13. The RecordBreach
    Fashion retailer Resolve says hackers stole payment card information

    The company, billing itself as “the next-generation fashion retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers,” said a recent hack exposed customer payment…

  14. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-119978 in FlowiseAI (CVSS 9)

    Flowise through 3.1.4 contains a sandbox escape vulnerability that allows authenticated users to execute OS commands by abusing…

  15. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-118697 in JetBrains (CVSS 9)

    In JetBrains Toolbox App before 3.9.1 and 3.8.2; IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.3 and 2026.2.4, the jetbrainsd daemon trusted compromised…

  16. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-112816 in Canonical (CVSS 10)

    Improper certificate validation in the HTTPS listener in Canonical LXD 4.0.14, 5.0.10, 5.21.8, 6.9 before 4.0.15, 5.0.11, 5.21.9, 6.10.1…

  17. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-119717 in up9inc (CVSS 9.2)

    pybars4 through 0.9.13 contains a code injection vulnerability in pybars/_compiler.py that allows attackers to execute Python code via…

  18. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-116852 in Marketing Fire (CVSS 9.1)

    Author Remote Code Execution (RCE) in Widget Options <= 4.2.5 versions.

  19. RansomLookRansomware
    31 new victims claimed on ransomware leak sites in the last 24 hours

    17 active groups. Claims are unverified; victims are not named here.

  20. The Hacker NewsIncident
    Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide

    Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in…

  21. NIST NVDVulnerability
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-119706 (CVSS 9.8)

    InternLM LMDeploy 0.9.0 through 0.18.0 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that allows remote attackers to run…

  22. The RecordBreach
    Florida warns that 4.9 million people had Social Security numbers leaked in financial aid site breach

    The state’s Department of Education (FLDOE) said on Thursday it became aware of a data breach involving the Florida Student Financial Aid website on October 19.

  23. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-93327 in Google Cloud (CVSS 9.4)

    A Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in the SubWorkflow task in Google Cloud Application Integration versions prior to…

  24. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-119660 in yincongcyincong (CVSS 9.3)

    MuseBot before 2.0.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge admin sessions by…

  25. ENISA EUVDVulnerabilityUK & Europe
    Critical vulnerability CVE-2026-119597 in AIDotNet (CVSS 9.3)

    OpenDeepWiki through 2.0.6 contains a hard-coded JWT signing key vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge…

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