American Hospital Association October 10, 2025
This week, the FBI issued an urgent warning to all users — including hospitals — of a critical security soft spot within Oracle’s E-Business Suite, stating “This is ‘stop-what-you’re-doing and patch immediately vulnerability.’”
The vulnerability has allowed cyber bad actors to carry out data theft ransomware attacks. Oracle is offering a patch to address the security problem.
This latest threat reminds us that cybercrime is ever-present, and health care has been the No. 1 target for years. Hospitals and health systems are committed to taking every possible precaution to protect system operability and patients’ personal data, and the good news is their defenses block most attacks.
But no individual hospital can defend against all of these very sophisticated criminal and...
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