ANSSI Improperly Issued Digital Certificates HTTPS Spoofing

Several improperly issued CA certificates could be used in HTTPS spoofing attacks...

Mis-issued ANSSI/DCSSI certificate — Mozilla

Google notified Mozilla that an intermediate certificate, which chains up to a root included in Mozilla’s root store, was loaded into a man-in-the-middle MITM traffic management device. This certificate was issued by Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information ANSSI, an agency of t...

French Government Impersonates Google Digital Certificate

Google last week revoked digital certificates for some of its domains that had been fraudulently signed by an intermediate certificate authority with links to France’s cyber-defense agency. The Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information ANSSI claims that the spoofed Google...

Report: French Nuclear Company Areva Hit by Virus

French nuclear power group Areva was the target of a cyber attack in September, according to a recent post on the website of French business magazine L’Expansion. There were conflicting reports about the incident, which raises the specter of nation-backed spying. Some accounts, including one from...