{"id":4481,"date":"2012-06-04T17:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2012-06-04T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:56:58","slug":"microsoft-certificate-was-used-to-sign-flame-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4481","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Certificate Was Used to Sign &#8220;Flame&#8221; Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Microsoft certification authority signing certificates added to the Untrusted Certificate StoreWhile these security issues are not Flame-specific, and could be used in other forms of unrelated malware, Microsoft was able to identify components of the Flame malware that had been signed with a certificate that ultimately chained up to the Microsoft Root Authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/microsoft-unauthorized-certificate-was-used-sign-flame-malware\">Microsoft Certificate Was Used to Sign &#8220;Flame&#8221; Malware | SecurityWeek.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Microsoft did not say what algorithm was exploited in order to generate the rogue certificates, though <em>SecurityWeek<\/em> did reach out to Microsoft for comment and we will update the story if a response is recieved.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft certification authority signing certificates added to the Untrusted Certificate StoreWhile these security issues are not Flame-specific, and could be used in other forms of unrelated malware, Microsoft was able to identify components of the Flame malware that had been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[420,50,101],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-certificates","tag-microsoft","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}