Healthcare departments under threat
The alert from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center on Nov. 30 and the AHA warning on Friday come amid an outbreak of ransomware attacks alleged to involve Citrix Bleed exploitation that has hit companies in the healthcare and other sectors in recent weeks. This blog will cover the threats and everything related to the Citrix Bleed flaw.
CySecurity News had already reported on a Citrix bleed bug delivering sharp blows earlier in November 2023.
“HC3 strongly recommends companies to make improvements to prevent additional harm against the healthcare and public health sector,” alerted the Department of Health and Human Services.
High severity Citrix Bleed Vulnerability
According to John Riggi, AHA’s national adviser for cybersecurity and risk, the urgency of HHS’s alert “confirms the gravity” of the Citrix Bleed vulnerability and the urgent requirement to install existing Citrix patches and upgrades to secure healthcare IT systems.
Google’s Mandiant report in October “identified zero-day exploitation of this vulnerability in the wild beginning in late August 2023. Successful exploitation could resu
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