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Someone finally cracked the Xbox One after 13 years. Here’s why security pros should care.

On this episode of Security Intelligence, panelists Ian Molloy, Seth Glasgow and Kimmie Farrington discuss the Xbox One hack presented at RE//verse 2026. More than just a neat story of one hacker’s ingenuity, there are some important takeaways for practitioners here.

But before that, we get into promptware, a new model for understanding attacks on LLMs that goes beyond the basics of prompt injections. Formulated by a handful of prominent cybersecurity researchers, including Bruce Schneier, promptware urges defenders to start thinking about the full AI attack kill chain, not just the front door.

Then we dive into a new analysis of cloud attack trends from IBM X-Force's Omari Jones, which finds that cybercriminals are targeting cloud ecosystems rather than cloud infrastructure. How do we need to shift our own mindsets to counter this?

Meanwhile, Google Threat Intelligence Group and Coveware find ransomware gangs increasingly ditching their flashy external tools in favor of PowerShell and other built-in system utilities—making detection significantly harder.

And Chuck Everette's Dark Reading op-ed raises a question that doesn't get enough airtime: With everyone focused on cutting-edge AI tech, what about the downright ancient OT systems and PLCs that underpin large swaths of American critical infrastructure?

All that and more on Security Intelligence.

In this episode:

00:00 – Introduction
1:01 -- From prompt injection to promptware
11:15 -- Cloud security trends 2026
19:59 -- Ransomware attackers live off the land
28:53 -- OT security: cybersecurity’s “rusting edge”
34:41 -- The Xbox One hack

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.

Cloud attacks are evolving: What 2025 trends mean for defenders in 2026 → https://www.ibm.com/think/x-force/cloud-attacks-evolving-what-2025-trends-mean-defenders-2026

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Does your AI agent talk too much? It’s not just an annoying habit—it’s a security concern.

On this episode of Security Intelligence, Sridhar Muppidi, Claire Nuñez and Dave Bales join me to discuss Guardio’s research into “agentic blabbering,” and how attacks can use an agent’s reasoning process against it.

In experiments with the agentic Perplexity Comet browser, Guardio researchers were able to design foolproof phishing websites just by listening to agent’s running monologue as it traversed the web.

What does it mean for agentic security when sophisticated AI reasoning processes can be weaponized?

Then, we chat about Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s discovery that Claude Opus can reverse engineer 40-year-old (practically ancient, by software standards) code. Did AI just expand the attack surface to include every compiled binary ever written?

Plus: Contrast Security CISO David Lindner claims that shift left has failed. Dramatic increases in the exploitation go vulnerable code—confirmed by the IBM Threat Intelligence Index 2026, among many other reports—suggest he might be onto something. But is there more to the story?

And, finally, we dig into two new pieces of research from IBM X-Force: One about a new piece of AI-generated malware, and another about reframing how we think about authentication.

All that and more on Security Intelligence.

00:00 -- Introduction
1:19 -- Perplexity Comet’s “agentic blabbering”
13:06 -- AI resurrects old vulnerabilities
21:28 -- Did shift left fail?
30:05 -- AI slop and the post-auth perimeter

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Did you miss out on the [un]prompted AI security conference? So did most of us. Except our very own Dustin “Evil Mog” Heywood, who joins us today to share highlights from the event.

And speaking of [un]prompted, we also discuss one of the biggest announcements to come out of the event: the Zero Day Clock. This coalition of experts is arguing that we need to radically rethink vulnerability management in the face of plummeting time-to-exploit values for new vulnerabilities.

Among their demands that might prove to be quite controversial: holding software makers liable for flaws and building more disposable architecture.

Then we talk about some notably nasty AI agent behavior, including manipulating prescriptions and writing mean blog posts about human users.

Finally, we round out the week with a discussion of burnout among cybersecurity pros. We’re working, on average, 10 overtime hours per week. It’s exhausting—and really, really bad for security.

All that and more on Security Intelligence.

00:00 -- Introduction
01:26 -- Report back from [un]prompted
09:07 -- The zero day collapse
21:26 -- AI agents harassing humans
31:26 -- Burnout in cybersecurity

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A consumer just wanted to control his own personal robot vacuum with a PlayStation controller. He ended up controlling thousands of strangers’ vacuums, too.

This week on Security Intelligence, we cover one of the wildest IoT security stories in recent memory: How one user accidentally built an army of 6,700 robot vacuums, and what it means for cybersecurity pros.

Then we turn to TOAD — telephone-oriented attack delivery — a deceptively low-tech social engineering method that's quietly becoming one of attackers' favorite tools. We talk about why it works and what defenders can actually do about an attack that skips most of your defenses entirely.

And finally: healthcare's cybersecurity problems. This season of the hit medical drama The Pitt features a hospital-debilitating ransomware attack, which is perhaps one of the most realistic things to ever happen on a show known for its verisimilitude. We explore why ransomware is so prevalent in healthcare, why patching is rare and what it would actually take to change that.

00:00 -- Introduction
0:58 -- Rise of the robot vacuum army
10:02 -- Anthropic debuts Claude Code Security
24:39 -- Thwarting distillation attacks
34:23 -- Why hackers love TOADs
44:14 -- Healthcare’s cybersecurity woes

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AI agents are coming to the enterprise—but can we actually control them?

On this bonus episode of Security Intelligence, IBM Fellow and CTO IBM Security Sridhar Muppidi helps us dig into the rise of agentic AI security risks, from generative AI systems with backend access to autonomous agents that can schedule meetings, call APIs and automate workflows — often with highly privileged access.

Traditionally, identity and access management has (IAM) focused on human beings. Then came service accounts and API credentials. Now? We’re facing an explosion of machine identities, including a brand-new class of AI identities that blend human and machine characteristics.

How do we manage identity and access for software systems that behave like human users?

Join us for a discussion of:

What makes AI identity management different from traditional IAM

Why valid account abuse remains one of the top attack vectors — and how AI could amplify it

The risks of giving generative AI systems the keys to the kingdom

How enterprises should think about AI access control and governance

Why there’s still no clear standard for securing AI and non-human identities

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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