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AHA and Health-ISAC warns of potential terrorist attacks in the hospital.

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The American Hospital Association and Non -profit Health ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center) warn of potential terrorism for US hospitals in the next few weeks.

On March 18, the user @Axactual made a post on X. Common threat bulletin board.

The terrorist attack on the hospital is known by ISIS-K, the department of the Islamic state of the Jihad Group. Hipaa journal. This article has been added to the US X account and claims to be an American Christian company consisting of American kinetix (JSOC), CIA and combat veterans.

American Kinetix said it received a report on the possibility of pre -attack monitoring at the hospital.

The post confirmed that Chatter was in a high-end stage at the ISIS-K training camp in Afghanistan, the HIPAA Journal said. According to this post, ISIS-K uses a vehicle spherical improvisation explosion (VBIDES) and uses armed assault and hostage scenario.

According to the report, “Information suggests that this attack should occur before the planned aviation/DC attack of Al-Q’AIDA.

The main goal of the joint threat bulletin board said that the city with low security facilities. While the information insists on multiple concurrent goals, the attacker will choose a healthy health sector and perform the pre -plan adjustment.

Bulletin is a common practice for an individual considering targeting violence, which is a general practice of monitoring and reconnaissance before attack. If there is a visible security, you can relieve the target of the target in the attack planning stage.

AHA and Health-ISAC said they are sharing joint threat bulletin boards with abundant attention to spread the perception of potential threats. AHA and Health-ISAC are in close contact with the FBI and will provide additional information when providing additional information.

At this point, there is no information that can confirm or discount the reliability of this threat, Bulletin said.

AHA and Health-ISAC said, “In general, foreign terrorist groups do not disclose the coming attacks.” But this widely seen post can encourage others to participate in malicious activities toward the health sector, so you have to accept this threat of this personality seriously. The security team should review the emergency management plan and spread the perception of potential threats internally. “

The group recommended that the organization would increase the relationship with regional and federal law to review, evaluate and evaluate the adjustment and function of physical security, cyber security and emergency management plans, and simplify the efforts to respond during attacks.

In addition, the staff and security teams should keep their boundaries for suspicious activities as well as people or vehicles near the organizational or health sector, Bulletin said. If it is identified, it is recommended to immediately inform local law enforcement agencies.

Please send an email to the artist: Smorge@himss.org

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