How? With a powerful digital certificate anyone can used to forge the identity of any website on the internet.
According to David Molnar, a computer science PhD candidate at UC Berkeley "The padlock will be there and everything will look like it's a perfectly ordinary certificate."
Hackers could use such an attack in combination with a DNS attack to erect perfect counterfeit banking and e-commerce sites.
Here is a visual of how the hack work.
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