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