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Google, Mozilla, Apple Block the Kazakhstan root CA Certificate

Kazakhstan forced their users to install the Government-issued digital certificate on their devices through Internet Service Providers (ISPs) The Kazakhstan government goal was to intentionally intercept the users web traffic and their activities without letting them know that the citizen’s activities are secretly monitoring by a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against HTTPS connections. Google, Mozzila, and Apple decided to ban the Kazakhstan root CA certificate to protect the millions of users privacy, it means Chrome, Firefox, and Safari will no longer trust the government-issued root certificate. At least 37 domains are affected, including social media and communication websites.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/kazakhstan-root-ca-certificate/

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