xa24d-cointelegraph[.]com

On 25 July 2026 the domain xa24d-cointelegraph.com was observed delivering a generic phishing campaign that impersonates an initial coin offering associated with Elon Musk. The site returns HTTP 521, indicating that the origin server is unavailable, and access is intercepted by the PhishDestroy blocklist. The page title explicitly reads “Elon Musk Officially Launches XA24D ICO”, a claim not corroborated by any official source and typical of lure content. Infrastructure analysis shows the domain resolves to 188.114.96.3, an address owned by Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335) located in the United States.

The domain was registered on 21 February 2026 through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited, and uses Cloudflare’s DNS service with nameservers eric.ns.cloudflare.com and vita.ns.cloudflare.com. The SSL certificate is issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 profile, providing a valid TLS handshake despite the malicious purpose. A scan on VirusTotal recorded 2 detections out of 93 antivirus engines, and the domain appears on one external security blocklist. The Gridinsoft trust score is 0 out of 100, reinforcing the malicious classification.

Detected web technologies include WordPress, MySQL, PHP, Vue.js, jQuery, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, and Cloudflare, indicating a typical content‑management stack rather than a bespoke phishing kit. No additional evidence such as screenshot or payload details is currently available, so the exact content and credential‑harvesting mechanisms remain unknown. Defenders should continue to block the domain at network perimeter, update DNS blocklists with the observed nameservers, and monitor for any new resolutions or certificate changes. Incident response teams should treat any traffic to this domain as hostile and quarantine related email or messaging artifacts that reference the “XA24D ICO” lure.