Security News > 2020 > October > Xfinity, McAfee Brands Abused by Parked Domains in Active Campaigns

Parked domains, which act as aliases and redirect to other websites, can send visitors to malicious or unwanted landing pages or turn entirely malicious at any point in time - as evidenced by a recent Emotet campaign, a separate effort abusing Comcast and McAfee brands, and an election-themed attack.

That's shady enough, but sometimes, parked domains are crafted to be malicious from the get-go.

In looking further into the volume of parked domains out on the web, Palo Alto Networks found that 27,000 newly parked domains are on average identified daily.

Overall, the firm has identified 5 million newly parked domains in the past six months.

In the same time frame, the firm observed that 6 million parked domains have transitioned in terms of their classification.

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https://threatpost.com/xfinity-mcafee-brands-abused-parked-domains/160698/