Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast


Root Causes 1-39: New University Research on Phishing and Certificates

September 25, 2019

The majority of all phishing sites now use SSL certificates to more closely imitate the behavior of legitimate sites. New research from RWTH Aachen, a large, German technical university, investigates the patterns behind this certificate usage. Join our hosts as we dig into the details of these findings to learn specifically which certificate types are more or less likely to appear on phishing sites - and some thoughts on why.