VirusTotal
14 / 91 engine detections
Bericht öffnen“403 Forbidden”
Coinbase-Imitation: tether-gold.online — Letzter bekanntermaßen aktiv (HTTP 200). Zusammenfassung der Beweislage: VirusTotal 14/91 (alphaMountain.ai…
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14 / 91 engine detections
Bericht öffnenDBL_PHISH
4 community references
Bericht öffnenprovider verdict: clean
Bericht öffnenNo threat flag
Bericht öffnenNo malicious flag
Bericht öffnenResults reflect each source’s collection time. Zero detections do not guarantee safety. OTX references are community publications.
PhishDestroy threat report
tether-gold.online is a crypto drainer site that impersonates Tether Gold, the tokenized gold product associated with the Tether brand, to lure holders of XAUT or related assets. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-08-26, and as of 2026-10-18 the site remains fully live with active content. The domain was registered on 2026-09-20, meaning it went up nearly a month after we first detected its presence, suggesting early infrastructure staging before the final domain was locked in.
Sites of this type present a convincing replica of a legitimate Tether Gold interface, prompting visitors to connect their cryptocurrency wallet to claim tokens, stake assets, or access a supposed account. The moment a wallet is connected and the user signs a transaction or approves a contract interaction, a drainer script silently transfers tokens and any other approved assets out of the wallet to attacker-controlled addresses. The victim loses funds instantly and irreversibly. The current page title shows a 403 Forbidden response, which conflicts with the live-content status our checks recorded; this may reflect access controls on certain paths rather than the drainer being offline.
VirusTotal returned 14 detections from 91 engines as of 2026-10-06, with flagging vendors including BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, G-Data, CRDF, CyRadar, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, and alphaMountain.ai — a solid cross-vendor consensus across commercial and open-source engines. The domain appears on three independent blocklists: PhishDestroy, ScamSniffer, and CryptoFirewall. Spamhaus DBL classifies it as DBL_PHISH, and it has generated 4 OTX threat-intelligence pulses, indicating active community tracking.
The domain was registered on 2026-09-20 through Spaceship, Inc. and is hosted on a HostPapa network address in the United States. TLS is provided by Let's Encrypt under the YR2 intermediate, a free certificate that requires no identity verification and is routinely used by fraudulent sites to display a padlock in the browser.
If you visited the site but did not connect a wallet or sign anything, no immediate action is required beyond avoiding the domain. If you connected a wallet, go immediately to a trusted token-approval checker and revoke every approval granted to any contract address associated with this session. If funds have already moved, document the transaction hashes and report them to your exchange and local authorities, as recovery is unlikely without swift action. Security teams should block the domain and the hosting IP 172.245.64.246 at the network perimeter and push the blocklist entries to endpoint protection tools.
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For this gTLD, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
RAA §3.18 establishes abuse-contact and handling requirements. This report can document stored outbound notices and later technical observations; it does not by itself establish receipt, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
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14/91 engine detections
View source4 community references
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Listed domains receive at least one abuse report; this entry has no retained notification history.
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Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
tether-gold.online)Auch wenn dir nicht alle Details bekannt sind — trotzdem Anzeige erstatten. Auch unvollständige Informationen sind für die Ermittlungen hilfreich.
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
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