
Cloudflare tracks forged certificates from eMudhra’s weak CA keys
About 22,000 handshakes presented the weak keys; Cloudflare says none intercepted its own connections.
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About 22,000 handshakes presented the weak keys; Cloudflare says none intercepted its own connections.
Each epoch users share one directory view or an honest user emits a public proof of misbehaviour, with rare out-of-band contact.

Attackers hijacked .gh, .sl, and .as DNS, obtaining unauthorized certificates for Google and other organizations' domains.

Attackers hijacked the .gh, .sl, and .as registries and obtained unauthorized certificates covering Google domains.

Attackers hijacked the .gh, .sl, and .as registries and obtained later-revoked HTTPS certificates for Google and YouTube domains.

Attackers hijacked .gh, .sl, and .as registries, issuing unauthorized certificates for Google and other brands.

Cloudflare is building a post-quantum CA using Merkle Tree Certificates to shrink quantum-safe TLS handshakes.
Formal Dolev-Yao analysis shows plain Certificate Transparency requires an honest log, SCT Auditing removes that assumption, and Gossiping does not.

Google announced Android 17 will enforce OS-wide Encrypted Client Hello with ECH GREASE, plus Certificate Transparency by default and carrier 2G disablement.

Android 17 adds Encrypted Client Hello, Local Network Protection, default Certificate Transparency and operator-controlled 2G disabling to counter Wi-Fi tracking and snooping.

Cloudflare's Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available, and it no longer alerts on certificates Cloudflare issued for your own domains.
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