Blue Coat has warned nearly one quarter of all short-lived websites created by the 50 most prolific web parent domains are being used for cyber attacks.
A new report from Blue Coat Security Labs says that analysis of these so-called ‘One Day Wonders' shows that 22% are used in cyber crime, and that attackers are able to use the huge volume of these sites to hide their activities.
The report said that around 470 million websites exist for less than 24 hours, around 71% of all hostnames. The majority of One Day Wonders are created for legitimate content sharing and delivery, with major web organisations such as Google, Amazon and Yahoo! as well as web optimisation companies among the largest creators of hostnames.
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