folks[.]airdropsalert[.]us

The domain folks.airdropsalert.us was registered on October 18, 2025 through Dynadot LLC and resolves to IP address 142.251.156.119, which belongs to AS15169 Google LLC in the United States. Its authoritative nameservers are brenna.ns.cloudflare.com and hassan.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating use of Cloudflare DNS services. No TLS certificate is presented, meaning the site is served over plain HTTP only. The page title returned by the server is "Google", confirming that the site is intended to masquerade as a Google resource, and the listed brand target is Google.

The scam type is identified as a crypto scam, suggesting attempts to solicit cryptocurrency payments under false pretenses. Detection engines have assigned a Gridinsoft trust score of 0 out of 100, reflecting a complete lack of trust. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and is explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy service. Google Safe Browsing has flagged the site for social engineering, and 13 of 93 VirusTotal scanners have raised alerts, reinforcing the malicious assessment.

Current operational status is offline, indicating that the infringing content has been taken down or the hosting has been terminated. Defenders should continue to monitor the domain for any re‑activation, enforce blocklist rules that include this host, and ensure that any outbound traffic to the associated IP address is logged and inspected. Network controls should deny HTTP connections to the domain and consider adding the IP range of AS15169 to threat intelligence feeds, acknowledging that the address is otherwise owned by Google but has been abused in this instance. Continuous correlation with updated threat intel sources is recommended to detect any future reuse of the same infrastructure for similar crypto‑focused impersonation campaigns.