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

Attackers compromised three countrycode toplevel domains ccTLDs and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains Google said on October 6 Googles own systems were not breached but any domain ending in gh Ghana sl Sierra Leone or as American Samoa was put at risk With such a certificate an attacker could pose as the real site over an encrypted