Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Sep 2026, 08:49 CEST

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Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life. Perhaps it’s time to add attackers targeting newly discovered critical flaws in Citrix’s NetScaler application delivery controller and gateway products to that grim list. On Sunday, the company published a bulletin warning of eight CVEs, the worst of which – CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 – are rated critical with 9.5 CVSS scores.

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