Interception of encrypted traffic jabber.ru and xmpp.ru recorded
The administrator of the Jabber server jabber.ru (xmpp.ru) identified an attack to decrypt user traffic (MITM), carried out over a period of 90 days to 6 months in the networks of German hosting providers Hetzner and Linode, which host the project server and auxiliary VPS. environment. The attack is organized by redirecting traffic to a transit node that replaces the TLS certificate for XMPP connections encrypted using the STARTTLS extension. The attack was noticed […]