OpenAI will pool ChatGPT and Codex into one usage limit in December
Codex runs will soon share your ChatGPT token budget — after months of limit gripes. Plus: a Windows stealer that outsources victim triage to a hosted Claude.
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Codex now shares your ChatGPT allowance
Starting in December, Plus, Pro and Business plans draw ChatGPT and Codex from one token-measured pool — a heavy coding day now eats into your chat usage and back. Instant chat is exempt, and per-tier token limits aren't public yet. It lands on a Codex base already loud about shrinking limits.
A stealer that hires Claude to price its victims
Cisco Talos details VOLTA, a Windows infostealer that ships stolen logins to OpenRouter and prompts a model — default Claude Opus 4.6, failing over to Kimi-K2 then Gemini 2.5 Flash — to rank the victim's assets by payout tier and grade their opsec. Refusal-resilience is now a malware design goal, and a leaked OpenRouter key would foot the bill.
A stealer that hires Claude to price its victims
Cisco Talos details VOLTA, a Windows infostealer that ships stolen logins to OpenRouter and prompts a model — default Claude Opus 4.6, failing over to Kimi-K2 then Gemini 2.5 Flash — to rank the victim's assets by payout tier and grade their opsec. Refusal-resilience is now a malware design goal, and a leaked OpenRouter key would foot the bill.