Re: Western Union Certificate Error

[Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d () gmail com>]

Comodo got hacked awhile back and mass certificates compromised,
judging by that certificate you probably encountered one of the stolen
ones.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:40 AM, JT S <whytehorse () gmail com> wrote:
> I recently got this error "You attempted to reach
> www.westernunion.com, but instead you actually reached a server
> identifying itself as wumt.westernunion.com. This may be caused by a
> misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An
> attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake
> (and potentially harmful) version of www.westernunion.com. You should
> not proceed."
> Attached is a screenshot of the error and certificate info. SHA-256=9F
> 26 1E 37 F3 6A 34 88 AD 65 54 88 E0 5C 8A 13
> C6 69 D4 FE 2A 25 0F DA 2C 51 13 1E 08 F8 DA 6F
>
> Cert was issued by Comodo
>
> A google of the SHA comes up with ICANN but other sites come up with
> nothing... And then I read from comodo themselves they got breached
> and fraudulent certs were issued...
> http://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html
>
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