On October 14(th) , 2025, the CA/B Forum, which establishes standards within the certificate industry, voted to reduce the lifetime of Code Signing Certificates from 39 months to 460 days. The changes ...

Security researchers have found that hackers are using code-signing certificates more to make it easier to bypass security appliances and infect their victims. New research by Recorded Future's Insikt ...

Code signing certificates are used to authoritatively identify a software publisher and to guarantee that the content signed with the certificate has not been tampered with between the time it was ...

Malware authors have for some time been using code-signing certificates for their malicious payloads so they can sneak past enterprise anti-malware tools. But contrary to popular belief, not all of ...

GitHub says unknown attackers have stolen encrypted code-signing certificates for its Desktop and Atom applications after gaining access to some of its development and release planning repositories.

Guest Opinion: For many organisations, learning the differences between code signing certificates and TLS/SSL certificates can be overwhelming. While overwhelming, however, it’s essential ...

Criminals recently stole code-signing certificates from router and camera maker D-Link and another Taiwanese company and used them to pass off malware that steals passwords and backdoors PCs, a ...

Logitech’s Options+ and G Hub apps on macOS stopped working after their code-signing certificate expired, leaving users unable to launch them on Apple systems. Options+ is Logitech’s input device ...

NVIDIA certificates are being used to sign malware, enabling malicious programs to pose as legitimate and slide past security safeguards on Windows machines. Two of NVIDIA’s code-signing certificates ...

To simplify and unify business registrations and corporate filings, the Chinese government has initiated a reform to combine the business license, tax registration certificate and organization code ...