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34 Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · today 08:00 EDT

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites -- are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and malware. When Internet users try to visit expired domain names or accidentally navigate to a lookalike "typosqu

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