NetCraft : Hackers have broken into a website operated by the World Bank Group, which was subsequently exploited to host a convincing PayPal phishing site. The fraudulent content deployed on the site was able to benefit from the presence of a valid Extended Validation SSL certificate.
Extended Validation certificates can only be issued to organisations that have gone through a stringent set of verification steps, as required by the CA/Browser Forum. To recognise the high level of assurance offered by an EV certificate, most browser software will display the organisation's name in a prominent green box next to the address bar.
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