Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl, and .as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and then modified the DNS records for selected domains the registries issued.
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
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