Fable 5, GPT-5.6 and the high stakes of AI safeguards. Plus: Agentic ransomware, and ClickFix reigns supreme

About the episode

When it comes to Fable 5, Mythos 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol, the real story is in the safeguards.

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI both rolled out some powerful new models. And for perhaps the first time, the protections surrounding these models got almost as much airtime as the models’ themselves. 

On this week’s episode of IBM Security Intelligence, Sophie Cunningham, Diego Matos Martins and Jeff Crume join host Matt Kosinski to:

  1. Talk about an emerging paradigm in frontier models: Safety first. What’s gained and what’s lost when security controls take center stage? And just how effective are the ones we’ve developed?
  2. Then, we dive into Sysdig’s report on JADEPUFFER, the first agentic ransomware. But not every security expert agrees with that conclusion. So where do we land? 
  3. Plus: ClickFix is the new king of social engineering schemes—and it’s coming for your developers.
  4. Finally, Senior Threat Researcher Itzhak Chimino shares his technical research into UnregStealer, a credential-theft campaign targeting Latin American banks. To read the full research for yourself, visit: https://www.ibm.com/think/news/unregstealer-human-operated-browser-credential-theft-targeting-brazilian-banking

All that and more on Security Intelligence!

Segments:

  • 00:00 – Introduction
  • 01:38 – Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 
  • 13:26 – Agentic ransomware. Maybe. 
  • 24:08 – ClickFix: top social engineering attack
  • 32:51 – Analyzing UnregStealer

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

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Host and speakers of the episode:

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Sophie Cunningham
Dark Web Analyst, X-Force Threat Intelligence
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Diego Matos Martins
LA X-Force Incident Response Leader
Jeff Crume
Jeff Crume
Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Itzhak Chimino
Itzhak Chimino
Senior Threat Researcher
Matthew Kosinski
Matt Kosinski
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