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Hackers compromised third-party operators managing country-code top-level domains and changed authoritative DNS records for Google domains in Ghana (.GH), American Samoa (.AS), and Sierra Leone (.SL).
Summary
The attackers used that access to redirect affected domains to infrastructure they controlled and obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates.
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Perimeter infrastructure like VPNs, firewalls, and routers needs the same ongoing scrutiny as anything user-facing, it's frequently the oldest, least-monitored layer of the stack, and a popular target precisely because of that.
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