Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries

By Bill Toulas · BleepingComputer · Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 20:50 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

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. [...]

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