Ubuntu – apt-get update failed because certificate verification failed because handshake failed on nodesource

Running sudo apt-get update on my AWS EC2 Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS instance fails because my Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown when trying to access the deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x bionic Release

Here is the result after running sudo apt-get update

Hit:1 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:2 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Ign:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x bionic InRelease
Get:4 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Err:5 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x bionic Release
  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate issuer is unknown.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: XX.XXX.XX.XX 443]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Reading package lists... Done
W: https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x/dists/bionic/InRelease: No system certificates available. Try installing ca-certificates.
W: https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x/dists/bionic/Release: No system certificates available. Try installing ca-certificates.
E: The repository 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x bionic Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

It seems like my current installation of Node.js is causing the problem.

I've tried installing and updating ca-certificates in etc/ssl/certs, however, this did not help. I'm not exactly sure how to proceed from here to resolve this issue.

I'm not looking for a quick workaround that would compromise the security of the server.

Thanks in advance!