Attackers hijacked top-level domains to mint fraudulent certificates, the article reports.

Compromised registries included Ghana, Sierra Leone, and American Samoa according to the article.

Control of those zones let hackers manipulate DNS trust paths.

Unauthorized HTTPS certificates were issued for Google services according to the article.

Large organizations faced heightened exposure from the campaign according to the article.

Monitoring systems flagged abnormal certificate verification requests according to the article.

The case exposes systemic risk in how global internet trust is built.

Security teams are reviewing how registry compromises enable fake certs.

Read the full article for more details on the TLD hijacking campaign.