Hackers across the world continue to steal SSL and digital certificates. Recently held, was the Dutch company from which hacking experts stole 500 DigiNotar Digital Certificates. This included the ones of MI6 – UK, CIA – US and Mossad – Israel. The truth was revealed by a Mozilla developer. Recently, Mozilla is working to modify Firefox such a way that it ceases the sites that contain purloined certificates. However, the total number of stolen secure socket layer or SSL certificates remains at a whopping 531.

The domains affected to the malware in recent times include the intelligence agencies CIA, Mossad and MI6, software giants such as Microsoft, social networking sites Twitter and Facebook. In addition, Skype, yahoo was among the domains that were affected.

Even though the Dutch company is held for the stealing the SSL certificates, Iranian hackers are hacking the same sites as well. This means an Iranian hacker might have the original HTTP certificate for the CIA website, cia.gov. Google, Microsoft has been naming Iran and its hacking experts are causing this trouble stealing SSL certificates. However, it is predicted the country’s Government is supporting the attack.

It was the Dutch certificate issuing company that admitted its network was hacked by Iranian hackers in the month of July. However, it is not safe to let the hackers have legit HTTP certificates as they can impose real threat to the secret information shared on various networks.