A United Arab Emirates based cybersecurity company named DarkMatter wants to become a trusted root certificate authority in Firefox. This would allow any certificates that they issue to automatically be trusted in Firefox without having to be cross-signed by QuoVadis. Security professionals are concerned that the company is tied to government-sponsored hacking groups. The company has also promised to publish all of its publicly trusted certificates to Certificate Transparency logs. This is a framework that allows for the monitoring of new certificates as they are created in order to find ones that are invalid.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybersecurity-firm-darkmatter-request-to-be-trusted-root-ca-raises-concerns/