: most Let's Encrypt (and other Domain Validated) certificates are issued to junk- or plain criminal websites.
They're the ultimate manifestation of evil big tech.
They were introduced to encrypt the "last mile" because Internet Service Providers were replacing ads in webpages and, in the other direction, inserting fake clicks.
DV has destroyed the internet. People loose their ebank savings and companies get ransomwared; phishing is dead simple. EDIW/EUDIW will become an identity fraud disaster (because of AitM phishing atracks).
Even the name "Let's Encrypt" is wrong for a CSP: nobody needs a certificate to encrypt a connection. The primary purpose of a certificate is AUTHENTICATION (of the owner of the private key, in this case the website).
However, for human beings, just a domain name simply does not provide reliable identification information. It renders impersonation a peace of cake.
Decent online authentication is HARD. Get used to it instead of denying it.
🔹 Google (and Troy Hunt!) killed non-DV certs (for profit) because of the stripe.com PoC. Now Chrome does not give you any more info than what Google argumented: infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat…
🔹 This website stopped registering junk .bond domain names, probably because there were too many every day (the last page I found): newly-registered-domains.abtdo…. However, this gang is still active, open the RELATIONS tab in virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/…. You have to multiply the number of LE certs by approx. 5 because they also register subdomains and don't use wildcard certs. Source: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
.bond newly registered domains on 2024-08-15. Noted 7,147 newly registered domains, part 1 lists domains as 10-kwp-pv-anlage-kosten.bond, 247-nurse-14902.bond, 247-nurse-17413.bond, etc.
: most Let's Encrypt (and other Domain Validated) certificates are issued to junk- or plain criminal websites.
They're the ultimate manifestation of evil big tech.
They were introduced to encrypt the "last mile" because Internet Service Providers were replacing ads in webpages and, in the other direction, inserting fake clicks.
DV has destroyed the internet. People loose their ebank savings and companies get ransomwared; phishing is dead simple. EDIW/EUDIW will become an identity fraud disaster (because of AitM phishing atracks).
Even the name "Let's Encrypt" is wrong for a CSP: nobody needs a certificate to encrypt a connection. The primary purpose of a certificate is AUTHENTICATION (of the owner of the private key, in this case the website).
However, for human beings, just a domain name simply does not provide reliable identification information. It renders impersonation a peace of cake.
Decent online authentication is HARD. Get used to it instead of denying it.
REASONS/EXAMPLES
🔹 Troy Hunt fell in the DV trap:
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: most Let's Encrypt (and other Domain Validated) certificates are issued to junk- or plain criminal websites.
They're the ultimate manifestation of evil big tech.
They were introduced to encrypt the "last mile" because Internet Service Providers were replacing ads in webpages and, in the other direction, inserting fake clicks.
DV has destroyed the internet. People loose their ebank savings and companies get ransomwared; phishing is dead simple. EDIW/EUDIW will become an identity fraud disaster (because of AitM phishing atracks).
Even the name "Let's Encrypt" is wrong for a CSP: nobody needs a certificate to encrypt a connection. The primary purpose of a certificate is AUTHENTICATION (of the owner of the private key, in this case the website).
However, for human beings, just a domain name simply does not provide reliable identification information. It renders impersonation a peace of cake.
Decent online authentication is HARD. Get used to it instead of denying it.
🔹 Google (and Troy Hunt!) killed non-DV certs (for profit) because of the stripe.com PoC. Now Chrome does not give you any more info than what Google argumented: infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat…
🔹 This website stopped registering junk .bond domain names, probably because there were too many every day (the last page I found): newly-registered-domains.abtdo…. However, this gang is still active, open the RELATIONS tab in virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/…. You have to multiply the number of LE certs by approx. 5 because they also register subdomains and don't use wildcard certs. Source: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
.bond newly registered domains on 2024-08-15. Noted 7,147 newly registered domains, part 1 lists domains as 10-kwp-pv-anlage-kosten.bond, 247-nurse-14902.bond, 247-nurse-17413.bond, etc.
