Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Attackers hijacked multiple country-code top-level domains to issue counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other major services, demonstrating that DNS and certificate-validation weaknesses can be exploited to impersonate trusted digital properties at scale. For CIOs and technology leaders, this highlights that browser-side protections are not enough: IT must treat certificate governance, DNS integrity, and continuous monitoring as core controls for protecting customer trust, transaction security, and brand reputation. The incident also underscores the operational risk of slow certificate revocation and the need for layered defenses across web, identity, and infrastructure teams.