blackrock-sponsor[.]com

The domain blackrock-sponsor.com was registered on February 21, 2026 through the Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER, and is currently hosted behind Cloudflare with HTTP/3 enabled. DNS resolution points to the IP address 104.21.74.75, which belongs to AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc., located in the United States. The domain uses an SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 certificate profile, and its authoritative nameservers are noah.ns.cloudflare.com and sreeni.ns.cloudflare.com. The site returns an HTTP 403 status code, and the page title observed in limited scans reads "blackrock-sponsor.com | 523: Origin is unreachable". Security analysis shows that the domain is flagged by multiple sources. Google Safe Browsing lists it under the SOCIAL_ENGINEERING category, and PhishDestroy has blocked the domain. VirusTotal reports that 9 out of 95 security vendors have identified the domain as malicious, and it appears on one additional security blocklist. The Gridinsoft trust score is recorded as 0 out of 100, indicating an extremely low reputation. Despite these indicators, the domain remains active and continues to resolve, suggesting the infrastructure is still operational. Defenders should prioritize monitoring network traffic for any outbound connections to 104.21.74.75 and enforce blocking of the domain at perimeter defenses. Email gateways should incorporate the Google Safe Browsing and PhishDestroy feeds to quarantine messages referencing blackrock-sponsor.com. Continuous re‑evaluation is advised, as the presence of a valid SSL certificate and Cloudflare front‑end may be leveraged to evade simple blocklists. Organizations are encouraged to update threat intel platforms with the observed indicators of compromise to enhance collective detection capabilities.