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Cisco Talos reported on October 31 that VOLTA-AUTODOXER, a self-deleting Windows infostealer, steals browser passwords, cookies and payment cards, wallet seed phrases, session tokens, cloud keys and Wi-Fi passwords, then bundles them with the victim's home address, employer and card last four digits.
The bundle is sent through OpenRouter to a model told to act as a forensic intelligence analyst, which ranks the valuables by how easily they can be monetized under the heading “WHAT THEY'RE WORTH” and judges password hygiene under “THEIR OPSEC”, defaulting to Claude Opus 4.6 and falling back to Kimi K2, then Gemini 2.5 Flash when a reply contains a refusal phrase.
Talos stresses the AI stage is optional — without a configured key the malware still steals — and says it has not observed VOLTA in real attacks or given a victim count, so this is a documented design, not a confirmed campaign.
The malware doesn't just rob you — it itemizes you, grades your passwords, and hands the whole appraisal to a robot who has never once paid rent.
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