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,” Manifold Security’s Head of Research, Ax Sharma, said. “Unlike ‘example[.]com,’ third-party[.]com

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