A group of unknown hackers targeting the inner sanctum of Internet space

Group of unknown intruders managed to get full certification at once eight long-standing, and one fictional domain, using the data contained in the affiliate account of Comodo Group - one of the fairly respected certification bodies. The specialists in computer security, hacking occurred on March 14 and the subsequent tracing of the computer from which the attack was carried out, eventually led to Iran. Misappropriation of SSL-certificates can bring some serious consequences, including even the kidnapping of the personal data of millions of users around the world space.

SSL-certificates today are one of the base, or even the fundamental mechanisms of the modern Internet, it is only thanks to them, users can be sure that it is visited by those web sites that they were needed. At this time, hackers managed to get their own certificates to some domains. Eventually, the kidnappers will have the opportunity to create a fake page that the browser will display exactly the same as the original. And the saddest thing in this is that by entering their personal data on these pages, you generally will not be able to understand what personally sends confidential data to outsiders absolutely servers.

There's another rather unpleasant moment in the process of illicitly obtaining certificates - conducted with the help of such certificates of attack can be very diverse: from the point of breaking the little Wi-Fi access and "stealing" a few accounts before the capture of large-scale backbones on the Internet. According to the company's representatives themselves Comodo, occurred on the server burglary incident can be likened to the terrorist attacks of September 11, for the only exception that it occurred in the virtual space. According to CEO, Melih Abdulayoglu (Melih Abdulhayoglu), certificates themselves will be useless as long as their recipient does not have direct access to infrastructure services directly to DNS. Similar capabilities (such as access to the root servers DNS) have only the state structures, and for this reason, Meli Abdulayoglu believes that the role of initiator of the break to make intelligence a particular state. It is easy to understand that an American company Comodo, the term "certain state" is referring to Iran.

According to the information available to the company Comodo, from 9 certificates, which managed to catch the hackers at the moment has been used so far only one. Said by representatives of Comodo, this certificate has been tested with another IP-address registered in Iran. All certificates are compromised at the moment withdrawn, and Microsoft has already issued a patch that blocks access to Web sites that use these certificates.