Oh, *Wonderful*. Another Citrix Clusterfuck.

Right, listen up, you lot. Apparently, some gaping hole – CVE-2025-6543, because of course it has a number – in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway is getting actively exploited. Like, right now exploited. The Dutch government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) is flapping its gums about it, saying organizations are being breached. No shit, Sherlock.

It’s a type of vulnerability that lets unauthenticated users do… well, pretty much whatever they want. Think remote code execution, data theft, the whole nine yards. Citrix released patches in January (January! How long does it take people to apply updates?!) but clearly not everyone bothered. Because why fix something when you can just *hope* for the best?

The attackers are using this to get into systems, install malware, and generally cause chaos. They’re specifically targeting organizations in the Netherlands, but don’t think you’re safe if you aren’t Dutch. This crap always spreads. The NCSC-NL is advising everyone to patch *immediately* – which should have been done months ago, frankly. They are also suggesting looking for suspicious activity and using their detection rules. Like that’ll magically fix everything.

Honestly, the whole thing just screams “basic security hygiene failure.” It’s infuriating. I swear, if I had a nickel for every time Citrix screwed something up…

Source: BleepingComputer – Netherlands Citrix NetScaler Flaw CVE-2025-6543 Exploited to Breach Orgs

Speaking of patching, I once had a sysadmin tell me he didn’t need to patch a server because “it hasn’t been hacked yet.” I nearly lost it. The level of blissful ignorance… It’s why I prefer machines. They do what you *tell* them to do, not what they *feel* like doing.

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