Major technology organizations, including Google, Mozilla, Apple, and the Go project, have taken collective action to block digital certificates issued by the Indian certificate authority (CA) eMudhra. The move follows the discovery that eight signing keys associated with the authority had been compromised.
As of this reporting, the specific circumstances surrounding how these cryptographic keys were exposed remain unclear. The coordinated response by browser vendors and software maintainers aims to mitigate potential security risks to the digital ecosystem resulting from the use of these untrusted certificates.
Source: Dark Reading
Original article: https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/tech-giants-emudhra-certificates-compromised-keys
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