GlobalSign Kills Russian Tax Site Certificate, Paralyzing Online Refunds
When sanctions hit digital infrastructure, even collecting taxes becomes an exercise in cyber-humiliation. The official Russian tax portal just found out what happens when Western authorities revoke your security clearance.
The internal portal of the Russian tax agency, elk.nalog.gov.ru, lost its official digital trust after global certificate authority GlobalSign officially revoked its SSL certificate.
While the main homepage continues to render normally, the actual machinery behind it has ground to a halt. Citizens attempting to submit income declarations, process tax deductions, or file official appeals are met with harsh browser security blocks because the backend API sits on the unencrypted domain.
The digital sovereignty rhetoric meets reality when basic state bureaucracy collapses simply because nobody can issue a trusted HTTPS handshake.
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