Venafi Labs captured data on a steady stream of cyberattacks involving the misuse of keys and certificates. Keys and certificates have become interwoven into many aspects of our business and personal lives. CNNIC banned by Google and Mozilla for several of its domains issued by Chinas main government-run CA, making CNNIC certificates untrustworthy and vulnerable to attack. GM’s OnStar and other car apps hacked because the GM application did not properly validate security certificates. Without the ability to tell the good vs. good in the digital realm, our global economy is in a perilous and perilous situation.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/2015-the-year-of-attacks-on-trust-