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Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign malware

Getty Images reader comments 19 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has once again been caught allowing its legitimate digital certificates to sign malware in the wild, a lapse that allows the malicious files to pass strict security checks designed to prevent them from running on the Windows operating system. Multiple threat actors… Read More »

Hackers steal Mimecast certificate used to encrypt customers’ M365 traffic

reader comments 19 with 16 posters participating Share this story Email management provider Mimecast said that hackers have compromised a digital certificate it issued and used it to target select customers who use it to encrypt data they sent and received through the company’s cloud-based service. In a post published on Tuesday, the company said… Read More »