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. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks in an analysis on Thursday noted that domain-parking usually happens in the service of advertising.

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