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…