Almost all .science malicious, .cricket rigged, boffins find

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.work, .party equally dangerous.

Almost every one of the hundreds of thousands of websites in 10 top level domains including all under .review and .zip are malicious, according to research.

More than 95 percent of the hundreds of thousands websites in each of ten top level domains (TLDs) including .country, cricket, .science, and .party are flogging spam, malware, or adware.

The shocking findings published by security firm Blue Coat are part of a review canvassing millions websites requested by its clients of 15,000 businesses and 75 million global users.

"Most of these websites are being leveraged by attackers in spam and scams and to distribute potentially unwanted software," the bluecoat study Do Not Enter [pdf] says.

"Others are related to search engine optimisation positioning or other 'junk sites' that would be classified as suspicious.


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Long time ago, I've visited one of the Science website for research purpose and as an assurance even you have Adblocker exist, when scripts are embedded then your AV may detect for possible malicious which happened to me. So I steer way and search for alternatives.
 
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