While bogus certificates are key, the Flame virus can also spoof Microsoft's update service on a network.
Key to the phony Windows Update process was that the hackers had located and exploited a flaw in the company's Terminal Services licensing certificate authority (CA) that allowed them to generate code-validating certificates "signed" by Microsoft.
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