In the span of a year, Let's Encrypt managed to make people across the Internet feel safe on phishing sites
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Mar 27, 2017 22:23 GMT · By Gabriela Vatu Let's Encrypt, a free and open Certificate Authority, has issued close to 15,000 certificates containing the term "PayPal" for phishing sites.
The discovery was made by encryption expert Vincent Lynch, who says 96.7% of the 15,270 security certificates featuring the term "PayPal" issued by Let's Encrypt in the past year have been for phishing sites. The highest density of certificates was issued starting in November 2016, data shows.
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