Google Domains Impacted by Recent ccTLD Hijacks
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- Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
- Attackers who took control of three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) used that access to obtain HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and for domains run by other large organizations, Google disclosed on Tuesday. Attackers compromised the third-party operators of the .gh (Ghana),…
- For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the…
- 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. [...]
- Attackers compromised .gh, .sl and .as registries to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates
- Hackers hijacked the .gh, .sl, and .as ccTLDs and obtained HTTPS certificates for several Google domains. The post Google Domains Impacted by Recent ccTLD Hijacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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- 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…