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 lo...