More Than 200K Expired Domains Spreading Malicious Ads
Cybersquatting is a very profitable business.
Sucuri Company has published an article on its blog about how criminals make millions of dollars in overdue domains.
The expert investigation began with the client to contact technical support.
An analysis of HTTP traffic revealed that the client site loads images from the site www.twomediaxthemes.com.
According to the same DomainTools, the server serves 196,879 sites.
The average cost of 1 domain name is $10 per year.
Hence, from the 200K plus sites the criminals can earn more than $10 million annually.
