Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

Source: Krebs on Security

Direct navigation – a growing risk

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 malicious content.