Supply-chain compromise affecting an organization in India (Certificate Authority)
Eight private keys belonging to eMudhra intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates were compromised, confirmed by Mozilla and Google's Chrome Root Program on October 20, 2026. Possession of these keys would allow an attacker to issue fraudulent certificates for any website that browsers would trust. The incident triggered emergency fixes across browsers and software.
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- Primary source on file. It names the organization, so it is not linked while this entry is anonymized.
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