{"id":58277,"date":"2025-03-10T20:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-begs-owners-of-crippled-chromecasts-not-to-hit-factory-reset\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:33:24","slug":"google-begs-owners-of-crippled-chromecasts-not-to-hit-factory-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-begs-owners-of-crippled-chromecasts-not-to-hit-factory-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s second-generation Chromecast and its Chromecast Audio are suffering a major ongoing outage, with devices failing to cast due to an expired security certificate. The web giant is aware of the breakdown and says a fix is in the works.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, many users of these gadgets encountered an “untrusted device” error, preventing them from casting content to TVs and other displays. Tech-savvy netizens quickly traced<\/a> the issue to an expired intermediate certificate authority \u2013 created by Google to handle authentication for the affected equipment \u2013 which lapsed on March 9, 2025, at 1644 UTC after 10 years of validity. Models relying on this authority no longer work as expected due to this expiry; they can’t securely connect to Google’s backend systems and authenticate themselves.<\/p>\n

“We’re aware of an emerging issue impacting Chromecast 2nd gen and Chromecast Audio devices, and we are working on a fix,” Google told The Register<\/i> on Monday.<\/p>\n