On Thursday, the department’s security team, Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), issued an alert where it urged all U.S. healthcare businesses to protect their NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway equipment from ransomware gang invasions.
“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 (HPH) sector. This alert contains information on attack detection and mitigation of the vulnerability,” the alert read.
“HC3 strongly encourages users and administrators to review these recommended actions and upgrade their devices to prevent serious damage to the HPH sector.”
Prior to the aforementioned warning, Citrix had already issued two warnings urging admins to patch their appliances in priority. It also urged administrators to terminate all open and persistent sessions. Moreover, in order to stop hackers from obtaining authentication tokens even after the security upgrades have as well been installed.
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