Cisco Talos has detailed a self-deleting Windows infostealer dubbed VOLTA-AUTODOXER that harvests browser credentials, payment cards, email accounts, crypto wallets, Wi-Fi passwords and cloud configuration files, then compiles the data into a structured 'evidence bundle.' The malware sends this bundle to an AI model, Anthropic's Claude by default via OpenRouter, with a prompt to act as a forensic analyst and rank the victim's assets by cash-out value, saving the response as AI_Analysis.txt before exfiltrating everything and deleting itself.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-01
Cisco Talos researchers identified a new infostealer strain, internally dubbed Volta-Autodoxer, that after harvesting credentials, cookies and financial data compiles the stolen information and sends it to commercial LLMs. The AI is prompted to act as an intelligence analyst, producing a structured, citation-backed profile of the victim to help attackers prioritize high-value targets. Talos says it detected the malware via its new CAIRN framework but has not confirmed it is being used in active attacks.
wired.com
· 2026-10-31
Cisco is allowing engineers unrestricted access to AI tools to rewrite and modernize older codebases, according to a Fortune report. Executive Jeetu Patel described structuring his team into three groups: experienced Cisco operators, outside systems thinkers, and AI-native entrepreneurial engineers, saying their combination drives innovation.
developers.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-31
Cisco president Jeetu Patel has assigned Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old engineer who joined via the EzDubs acquisition, to lead a two-person effort to refactor the company's legacy codebase using AI tools, with unrestricted token access. Patel has set a four-week trial period, aiming eventually to rewrite 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months. Patel says he found Krishnamurthy buried several levels down the org chart doing work he considered unstrategic before elevating him.
fortune.com
· 2026-10-30
Cisco president Jeetu Patel has assigned Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old engineer who joined via the EzDubs acquisition, to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy codebase within 24 months using a small two-person team. Patel says he has given Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens for the project, which starts with a four-week proof of concept.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-30
Cisco Talos researchers identified a new threat group, UAT-11473, exploiting a maximum-severity authentication-bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controllers and Managers, patched in February 2026, to install a custom malware framework called KeyDrift. The attacks targeted space and satellite services, defense and aerospace firms, and policy research organizations, aiming to steal encryption keys and control-plane traffic. KeyDrift comprises two components, PolyFlame and LittleFilch, which Talos says are under active development with new evasion techniques.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-29
Cisco has issued security updates for CVE-2026-76418, a high-severity flaw in ASA and FTD software that lets unauthenticated attackers remotely crash firewalls configured with webvpn and SSL VPN enabled. Cisco's PSIRT confirmed active exploitation in October 2026 but has not disclosed indicators of compromise or details on targeted organizations or attackers. Admins unable to patch immediately can mitigate by disabling secondary authentication on affected tunnel groups.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-29
Nvidia and Cisco have confirmed making multimillion-dollar donations to the renovation of a White House ballroom championed by President Trump, joining a donor list reported by The Washington Post to exceed $330 million. Nvidia and Apple each reportedly gave $25 million, while Cisco confirmed a $5 million contribution; Amazon, Palantir, ServiceNow, Meta and Microsoft were also named as major donors, funneled through a nonprofit trust.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-15
Nvidia and Cisco have jointly unveiled Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new optical transceiver standard supporting 400Gb/s per lane, the first interface to do so. Cisco says the module is designed to eventually reach total transfer rates of 12.8Tb/s, offering four times the bandwidth of existing 200Gb/s optics and 1.3x better power efficiency. Initial USFP transceivers will have 16 full-duplex lanes and work with both switches and Nvidia's SuperNIC adapters, which move data between GPUs using the RoCE protocol.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-15
Cisco has released a patch for CVE-2026-76519, a path traversal bug in Secure Email Gateway's Advanced Malware Protection feature that lets unauthenticated attackers send a malicious email attachment to gain root-level command execution on unpatched devices. Cisco's security team said it detected active exploitation of the flaw in October 2026 and published indicators of compromise for administrators to check their systems. The vulnerability only affects devices with File Reputation enabled and running Content Scanner Tools versions earlier than 25.3.0.5525.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-14
Cisco issued advisories for five critical vulnerabilities in NX-OS that could let attackers run code with root privileges or crash devices, triggering a denial-of-service. The flaws stem from input validation failures in the NX-API, Next Generation OAM, and MPLS OAM features, and affect Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series switches running in standalone NX-OS mode. Exploitation requires at least one of those features to be active, with some issues also depending on settings like SRv6 or NV Overlay being enabled.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-08
Cisco is rolling out an update to its Webex platform centered on a new tool called Dialog, an "agentic harness" meant to coordinate AI agents handling customer interactions across people, agents and backend systems. The update also lets workspace users invite AI agents directly into meetings, calls and spaces to perform multi-step tasks, such as pulling statistics into a live presentation, and includes onboarding processes that expose agents to employee handbooks and procedures, with Splunk providing monitoring.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-07
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