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Get Permission Citrix is warning its customers that attackers are taking advantage of the company's ADC products to conduct and amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a notification published by the firm. In the warning, Citrix notes that these attacks are affecting a "limited" number of customers as of now. And while there is no known vulnerability at this point, the company is working on a permeant fix for its ADC products that won't be available until mid-January, according to the alert. "Citrix is monitoring these events and is continuing to investigate the impact th...

Citrix confirms ongoing DDoS attack impacting NetScaler ADCs By 06:26 AM Citrix has confirmed today that an ongoing 'DDoS attack pattern' using DTLS as an amplification vector is affecting Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) networking appliances with EDT enabled. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is a communications protocol for securing delay-sensitive apps and services that use datagram transport. DTLS is based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and it is designed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering, and to protect data privacy. Reports of the attack have s...