![Realistic cybersecurity scene showing a hacker performing a man-in-the-middle HTTPS interception attack on public Wi-Fi, with SSL certificate warnings, network traffic monitoring dashboards, and enterprise security screens in a dark professional SOC environment, ultra realistic, cinematic lighting, 4K.) Many developers assume HTTPS automatically guarantees secure communication. In reality, HTTPS security depends heavily on proper SSL/TLS certificate validation. If applications incorrectly trust malicious certificates, disable verification checks, or implement weak TLS validation logic, attackers may still intercept encrypted traffic through man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.…