Criminals turn placeholder domain into ClickFix trap

A domain that has long appeared in software documentation, code examples, and developer test material is now being used to push a ClickFix attack against Windows users. A placeholder domain stands in for a website in an example. The best-known is probably example.com. Another, third-party.com, ha...

Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content

The "third-party.com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party.com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays,"...