Windows, antivirus engines, and enterprise security tools all expect executables to be digitally signed. Previously, developers purchased an EV Code Signing Certificate, stored it on a USB token or ...

Whether you create your own code-signing certificate, or use a certificate from a certificate authority, it’s easy to give your Windows binaries the seal of approval. If you compile programs on ...

Trusted Signing, a Microsoft certificate-signing service, is being abused by criminals, researchers are saying The criminals are signing malware with short-lived, three-day certificates Microsoft is ...

How do we ensure that the code we’re installing is, at the very least, the code that a vendor shipped? The generally accepted solution is code signing, adding a digital signature to binaries that can ...

Microsoft blocked code signing certificates predominantly used by Chinese hackers and developers to sign and load malicious kernel mode drivers on breached systems by exploiting a Windows policy ...

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered ...

In July, security researchers revealed a sobering discovery: hundreds of pieces of malware used by multiple hacker groups to infect Windows devices had been digitally signed and validated as safe by ...

The industry is moving from SHA-1 certification to SHA-2, and if you sign code you need to be aware of the changes afoot. In a nutshell, you will probably want to get an SHA-2 certificate before Dec.

The China-aligned APT (advanced persistent threat) group known as 'Bronze Starlight' was seen targeting the Southeast Asian gambling industry with malware signed using a valid certificate used by the ...