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Citrix urged customers on Tuesday to immediately patch Netscaler ADC and Gateway appliances exposed online against two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities.The two zero-days impact the Netscaler management interface and expose unpatched Netscaler instances to remote code execution and denial-of-service attacks, respectively.
Telecommunications company Comcast has confirmed a breach that exposed personal information of more than 35.8 million of Xfinity customers. CVE-2023-4966 - an information disclosure vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices - was disclosed on October 10, when Citrix issued a patch to fix the vulnerability.
Following an investigation into the impact of the security breach, Xfinity discovered on November 16 that the attackers also exfiltrated data belonging to an undisclosed number of customers from its systems. "After additional review of the affected systems and data, Xfinity concluded on December 6, 2023, that the customer information in scope included usernames and hashed passwords; for some customers, other information may also have been included, such as names, contact information, last four digits of social security numbers, dates of birth and/or secret questions and answers. However, the data analysis is continuing," the company said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned hospitals this week to patch the critical 'Citrix Bleed' Netscaler vulnerability actively exploited in attacks. "The Citrix Bleed vulnerability is being actively exploited, and HC3 strongly urges organizations to upgrade to prevent further damage against the Healthcare and Public Health sector. This alert contains information on attack detection and mitigation of the vulnerability," HC3 warned.
How LockBit used Citrix Bleed to breach Boeing and other targetsCVE-2023-4966, aka "Citrix Bleed", has been exploited by LockBit 3.0 affiliates to breach Boeing's parts and distribution business, and "Other trusted third parties have observed similar activity impacting their organization," cybersecurity and law enforcement officials have confirmed on Tuesday. Apache ActiveMQ bug exploited to deliver Kinsing malwareAttackers are exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ to install Kinsing malware and cryptocurrency miners on targeted Linux systems.
CVE-2023-4966, aka "Citrix Bleed", has been exploited by LockBit 3.0 affiliates to breach Boeing's parts and distribution business, and "Other trusted third parties have observed similar activity impacting their organization," cybersecurity and law enforcement officials have confirmed on Tuesday. "Due to the ease of exploitation, CISA and the authoring organizations expect to see widespread exploitation of the Citrix vulnerability in unpatched software services throughout both private and public networks," the agencies warned.
Multiple threat actors, including LockBit ransomware affiliates, are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler application delivery control (ADC) and...
Citrix reminded admins today that they must take additional measures after patching their NetScaler appliances against the CVE-2023-4966 'Citrix Bleed' vulnerability to secure vulnerable devices against attacks. Kill icaconnection -all kill rdp connection -all kill pcoipConnection -all kill aaa session -all clear lb persistentSessions.
Ransomware gangs target exposed Citrix Netscaler devices using a publicly available exploit to breach large organizations, steal data, and encrypt files. November 14th 2023 LockBit ransomware exploits Citrix Bleed in attacks, 10K servers exposed.
Citrix has released hotfixes for two vulnerabilities impacting Citrix Hypervisor, one of them being the "Reptar" high-severity flaw that affects Intel CPUs for desktop and server systems. "Although this is not an issue in the Citrix Hypervisor product itself, we have included updated Intel microcode to mitigate this CPU hardware issue," reads the advisory.