A week in security (October 26 – November 1)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Fake PDF and search tools hijacked searches for 13.4 million Chrome users Photo ID, bank checks, face scan? The UK’s…
Author: Cybernoz
New VOLTA Infostealer Uses Claude, Gemini, and Kimi AI to Rank Victims by Financial Value
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows infostealer malware called VOLTA-AUTODOXER (aka VOLTA) that makes use of a large language model (LLM) to rank a…
Binance Hack: FBI Links $6B Theft To North Korea
The Binance hack involving more than $6 billion in virtual assets has been attributed to North Korea by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),…
Emergency Alert App Cyberattacks Hit Russia And Ukraine
Emergency alert app cyberattacks in Russia and Ukraine triggered a series of false warnings, including alerts about air raids, radiation threats, chemical attacks and alleged…
Westpac reveals AI cut data warehouse migration cost from $70m to $35m
Key points Westpac says AI-accelerated migration of the legacy St.George data warehouse cut costs from a budgeted $70 million to around $35 million. CEO Anthony…
Ivanti Patches Two More Zero-Days Exploited in Connect Secure Attack Chain
Ivanti has released patches for two more Connect Secure (ICS) zero-days that attackers chained with a vulnerability the company disclosed last month. The newly patched…
Chainalysis Investigates Security Incident Involving AI-Driven Attack Techniques
Chainalysis Investigates Security Incident Involving AI-Driven Attack Techniques Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2026 Chainalysis suffered a cyberattack exposing customer names, emails and user IDs, while…
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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: More than 2,000 years ago, Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu observed: “If you know the enemy…
Automatically discover and secure your APIs with Wiz Dynamic Scanner
The adoption of APIs has become exponential as businesses race to join the API economy. Today, developers can deploy APIs on an hourly or daily…
TightVNC Pre-Auth RCE Vulnerability Lets Hackers Execute Code on Windows PCs, PoC Released
A TightVNC Viewer vulnerability can let attackers execute code on Windows PCs before a password prompt appears. Research credited to SeongJoon Cho of SSD Labs…
New VOLTA Infostealer Uses Claude, Gemini, and Kimi AI to Profile Victims and Rank Stolen Data
A self-deleting Windows infostealer named VOLTA uses commercial AI models to turn stolen credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency data into prioritized victim assessments. The malware, self-named…
Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prison
Swati KhandelwalOct 30, 2026Cyber Crime / Cyber Espionage Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as “Th3Pr0,” has been sentenced by a…