Malware from parked domains

As many as five million parked domains belonging to customers of Network Solutions were actively serving malware to visitors due to an infected widget.

Parked domains refer to sites that have been registered but do not contain any content. Researchers at California-based Armorize still are analyzing the infection and have notified Network Solutions, a web hosting provider, about it.

The now-disabled widget attempted to serve malware to visitors of parked Network Solutions pages via drive-by-download. The infected widget, which was intended to provide small business tips about Network Solutions sites that were under construction, was served to domains by default when an account holder chose to park their site using Network Solutions' standard "under construction" page.

Based on Google and Yahoo searches, researchers determined that the infected widget had been installed on anywhere from 500,000 to five million parked domains.

Source: SC Magazine.