Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries

Reported by BleepingComputer (Bill Toulas)

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Oct 2026, 22:50 CET

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Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records.

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