Apple blocks web certificates that could be used by scammers, but Mac vulnerability remains

By Ben Lovejoy · 9to5Mac · Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 12:16 (45m ago) · Original article ↗

Apple has blocked eight web security certificates that could have been used by scammers to impersonate legitimate websites.

However, one cryptography engineer has warned that Macs may continue to trust the compromised certificates because macOS does not check for revocation …

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