Re: Unauthorized Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Certification path of the certificate that was used to sign WUSetupV.exe used by the Flame malware [pic]: 

https://twitter.com/#!/mikko/status/209620723973636096

Juha-Matti

Shreyas Zare [shreyas () secfence com] wrote: 
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com> wrote:
> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2718704
> > Microsoft is aware of active attacks using unauthorized digital certificates derived from a Microsoft Certificate 
> > Authority.
> >
> > what does this mean?
> >
> > m$ inadvertently gave signing rights to lusers, they got rooted
> > or something else?
>
>
> https://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/06/03/microsoft-certification-authority-signing-certificates-added-to-the-untrusted-certificate-store.aspx?Redirected=true
>
> https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-unauthorized-certificate-was-used-sign-flame-malware
>
>
> Shreyas Zare
>
> Sr. Information Security Researcher
> Secfence Technologies
> www.secfence.com

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