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Drex covers the alleged breach of OmniGPT affecting 30,000+ users with 34M+ exposed messages. Then, sophisticated deepfake scam using Italian defense minister's voice targeting business leaders. Lastly, a growing partnership between financial cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers from Russia, China, and Iran.

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Thanks for being with me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. Some of you may use a single generative AI tool, but some of you may be using OmniGPT, a generative AI aggregator that gives you access to several AI models, including Gemini and MidJourney and ChatGPT and Clawed and others.

Well, on dark web breach forums, a super user hacker made a post offering samples from a supposedly massive breach of OmniGPT that includes personal data from over 30, 000 users. The report says that that includes over 34 million lines of messages between users and OmniGPT and email and phone numbers for some of those users.

No details on the attack and no comment yet from OmniGPT. Remember just last week there was a similar claim that OpenAI had been breached. But that turned out to be false. So this Omni GPT story, keep your eye on it, and keep some salt handy, and I'll let you know what else I hear about it. Deepfakes continue to gain traction.

Scammers in Italy were able to clone the Italian defense minister's voice and use it. In a scam to try to pull millions of dollars out of some of Italy's top business tycoons. To, as the scammer had laid it out, to help free a kidnapped journalist who was being held in the Middle East. Ultimately the heist failed when one of the business people who was contacted decided to call the Italian defense minister back.

Just to check and make sure everything was on the up and up. And obviously it wasn't. But that's how you should handle these things if they happen to you. If there's something And look, these cyber criminals are really good. They know you're busy, they may know you're traveling, uh, they know what your hot buttons are, so stay paranoid and don't fall for it.

In the final story today, ARS Technica covers a growing collaboration between hacking groups seeking financial gains and hacking groups who are engaging in state sponsored espionage against other governments. A lot of cyber thugs like to specialize in the kind of criminal work they do, and then they team up with other cyber criminals to conduct specific operations against health systems or other victims.

One team might be great at finding their way into an organization. A second might be an expert at stealing data or deploying ransomware and a third might be great at negotiations with the business and law enforcement and cyber insurance companies. This report says there's an increase in sharing not only between financially motivated cyber criminal groups but between those groups and Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state sponsored hackers.

The author Dan Gooden really gets into some interesting detail and that story and a bunch of others are at one of healthcare's fastest growing news sites. This week, health. com slash news. Today's two minute drill was brought to you by Intraprise health, a health catalyst company. You need to get all your leaders on the same page when prioritizing risk.

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