Chinese Hackers Exploit Citrix Vulnerabilities
Health Sector Entities Urged to Patch Citrix ADC, Gateway Flaws
Errol Weiss quote:
“Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway are popular technologies used by many healthcare sector organizations,” he says. “Left unpatched, an adversary could gain access to corporate networks, leaving them vulnerable to devastating cyberattacks like ransomware and intellectual property theft.”
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • December 19, 2022
A networking appliance used to assure the availability of clinical applications and a virtual private network each made by Citrix both contain flaws that are under active exploitation by Chinese state-sponsored hackers.
U.S. federal authorities and Citrix both are urging users to patch the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-27518.
“These vulnerabilities are known to be actively exploited by a Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat,” says the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center in an alert issued Friday.
Link to full article in Healthcare InfoSecurity here:
https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/chinese-hackers-exploit-citrix-vulnerabilities-a-20740
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