Chris Siebenmann has written a short blog piece that reflects on the trend to see Certificate Transparency (CT) as the answer to ‘the problem’; the problem being how to tell if a validly signed and current certificate has somehow had to be repudiated.

For US$2,500, threat actors can employ Matanbuchus, a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) package found delivering Cobalt Strike beacons through phishing and spam messages.

As global and societal events such as supply chain shortages occur, there’s a corresponding increase in fraud related to fake domain registrations (websites) that capitalize on the event—creating unsafe situations for consumers.