U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says hackers are actively exploiting a critical-rated security flaw in a widely used Citrix product, and has given other federal government departments just one day to patch their systems.
Security researchers have dubbed the bug “Citrix Bleed 2” for its similarity to a 2023 security flaw in Citrix NetScaler, a networking product that large companies and governments rely on for allowing their staff to remotely access apps and other resources on their internal networks. Much like the earlier bug, Citrix Bleed 2 can be remotely exploited to extract sensitive credentials from an affected NetScaler device, allowing the hackers broader access to a company’s wider network.
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Source: TechCrunch News
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