Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

exploiting compromised certificates requires an active adversary-in-the-middle attack, meaning the attacker must act as a proxy between two TLS parties and receive encrypted traffic, decrypt it, reencrypt it, and send it to the other party. Such capabilities, in some cases, are usually limited to only the most well-resourced attackers. People with control of a local network—at a coffee shop, university, or other organization—face much less of a challenge.

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

Xkcd 221: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. }

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    4 hours ago

    my Ubuntu 24.04 server is secured despite not updating anything or rebooting (I have now, but curl was already declining it before)

    $ curl https://ov-g3c-aaa-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
    curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
    More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html
    
    curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
    establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
    how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.
    

    other issues would be software not respecting the system level certs, but that can happen on any OS, it just depends on the program