Hijacked country registries mint real Google certificates: the trust chain nobody audits
Decrypted: The UK Cyber BriefingShow Notes
Attackers took over the .gh, .sl and .as registries and obtained genuine HTTPS certificates for Google and others. The lesson for UK organisations sits below the website: who controls your DNS, and who is watching certificate logs.
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