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Hackers Forge Real Google TLS Certificates via Hijacked Country Domains
Original: Hackers Used Hijacked Country Domains to Forge Real Google TLS Certificates
Hackers hijacked top-level domains belonging to small countries and used that control to obtain legitimate TLS certificates bearing Google's name, according to a Fortune report. By compromising country-code domain infrastructure, the attackers were able to pass certificate authority validation checks, potentially enabling convincing phishing or man-in-the-middle attacks that browsers would treat as trusted.
Why now: A novel abuse of country-code domain hijacking to obtain trusted certificates undermines trust in the web's certificate system.
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