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Mozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates
Original report by Lawrence Abrams
Summarized by News Era from reporting by bleepingcomputer.com. How we work
What Happened?
Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly and use them to forge trusted certificates for legitimate websites.
Key Takeaways
- 1eMudhra revoked eight intermediate certificates.
- 2Researchers discovered that the private keys for these certificates were weak.
- 3The weakness allowed for the forging of trusted certificates for legitimate websites.
Summary written with AI from the story's source text.
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