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Attackers Hijack.gh,.sl, and.as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains

First reported Source: The Hacker NewsLast editorial activity
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What happened

Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google's own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at risk. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View, founded in 1998.

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