# PhishDestroy domain threat record: usatimes.news

Content language: English
Canonical HTML report: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/usatimes.news/
Machine-readable companion: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/usatimes.news/llm.txt

## Summary

PhishDestroy stores a threat-intelligence record for this domain.
This document reports the latest stored fields; it is not a real-time guarantee of availability or safety.

## Stored observations

- Listed by PhishDestroy: yes
- Availability at last stored check: observed active
- First observed by PhishDestroy: 2026-10-27 15:02:03 UTC
- Last availability or vendor check: 2026-10-28 00:30:42 UTC
- Stored record updated: 2026-10-28 00:30:42 UTC
- VirusTotal detections in the stored snapshot: 2/92
- Independent public blocklist matches in the stored snapshot: 0
- Google Safe Browsing stored result: no stored flag

## Stored infrastructure

- Observed IP address: 188.114.96.3
- Registrar in stored WHOIS data: NameCheap, Inc.
- Last stored HTTP status: 200
- Registration date in stored WHOIS data: 2025-01-29 08:51:11 UTC

## Evidence links

- URLScan report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a17de0-78d5-766c-8141-99bc8c0bdd1b/
- VirusTotal domain view: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/usatimes.news
- Certificate Transparency search: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.usatimes.news
- Web Archive lookup: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://usatimes.news/

## Corrections

- Appeal or correct this record: https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/
- Methodology and help: https://phishdestroy.io/faq

## Stored PhishDestroy analysis

Overview
PhishDestroy added usatimes.news to its internal blocklist on 2026-10-27 because VirusTotal returned two malicious detections. The prior AI intake assessment, observed on the same day, found the site presenting a news‑site title “USA Times News - National and International News” and reported no malicious content. An HTTP 200 response was recorded on 2026-10-27.

How the scam works
The listing relies on vendor detections that mark the domain as potentially malicious; such flags can indicate phishing, malware distribution, or other fraudulent activity, but no specific malicious behavior was observed on the captured page.

Evidence
VirusTotal recorded two malicious detections from alphaMountain.ai and Bkav on 2026-10-25 (retrieved 2026-10-27). Google Safe Browsing showed no flag on 2026-10-27. urlscan captured the site on 2026-09-13 with a clean verdict and again on 2026-10-27 with a high engine score (93) but an overall non‑malicious verdict. OTX listed seven pulses referencing the domain as of 2026-10-27. PhishDestroy’s internal blocklist marks the domain as malicious, while external blocklists reported zero listings except a single Cloudflare Family block on one resolver.

Infrastructure
The domain was created on 2025-01-29 through NameCheap, Inc. DNS resolved to 188.114.96.3 (and related Cloudflare addresses) and was served via Cloudflare’s CDN (ASN 13335). TLS 1.3 was observed with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid from 2026-09-12 to 2026-12-11. Cloudflare Radar recorded the server location in London, GB and flagged the domain for scam‑related risks.

What to do
Visitors should avoid entering credentials or downloading files from the site and change any passwords if they were entered. Security teams can block the exact domain name in web filters, monitor DNS queries for the recorded IP, and review access logs for connections to that address. No broader network blocks are required without further evidence of compromise.

Useful links
urlscan.io scan and screenshot: https://urlscan.io/result/01a17de0-78d5-766c-8141-99bc8c0bdd1b/
Cloudflare Radar report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/e14e9eec-96d1-49dd-b8e1-68dbabf2f41a
URLQuery report: https://urlquery.net/report/189b94ef-a206-4123-b87b-9665e26af143
Stored capture screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/0jf1MbmH/8a83bf456a4c.png
Cloudflare Radar screenshot (2026-10-27T15:32:30Z): https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/cf/e14e9eec-96d1-49dd-b8e1-68dbabf2f41a.png
URLQuery screenshot: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/uq/189b94ef-a206-4123-b87b-9665e26af143.png
VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/usatimes.news
Google Safe Browsing status: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=usatimes.news
Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20261027150123/https://usatimes.news/
Report phishing to Google: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
Site owner? Request a review: https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/
Analysis generated: 2026-10-27 15:33:40 UTC

## Stored page captures

- Primary capture: https://i.ibb.co/0jf1MbmH/8a83bf456a4c.png
  Captured: 2026-10-27 15:02:03 UTC
- URLScan capture 1: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/01a17de0-78d5-766c-8141-99bc8c0bdd1b.png
  Captured: 2026-10-27 15:02:03 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a17de0-78d5-766c-8141-99bc8c0bdd1b/
- URLScan · 2026-09-13: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/us/01a09a08-0d6f-719a-802a-770fbfef9fb4.png
  Captured: 2026-09-13 09:10:21 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a09a08-0d6f-719a-802a-770fbfef9fb4/
  SHA-256: f12a58d872188d5074ed3761e38e8db0fce43b917b10fb860732b837b18e16ba
- URLScan · 2026-01-13: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/us/019bb7c1-45af-725a-9df3-c22b6f9d34c4.png
  Captured: 2026-01-13 14:27:42 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/019bb7c1-45af-725a-9df3-c22b6f9d34c4/
  SHA-256: d509e6327ee039ddb9f5597b25387181c303d4d5de54299f8e44260a4098270e
- URLScan · 2026-05-07: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/us/019e003a-233b-741a-93c0-d893e18d5eaf.png
  Captured: 2026-05-07 02:17:58 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/019e003a-233b-741a-93c0-d893e18d5eaf/
  SHA-256: 18107cbac5ac670092177dfc68d45cfd5a6a930c4cf493cd54c04ff972b3046d
- URLScan · 2026-08-08: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/us/019fe0f5-c92e-7737-b20f-342abf38bcf3.png
  Captured: 2026-08-08 10:40:39 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/019fe0f5-c92e-7737-b20f-342abf38bcf3/
  SHA-256: daf95e8c287e42baefbcb272b842e50924b2d5bd493294b255b83bfa1aa4d73d
- Cloudflare Radar: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/cf/e14e9eec-96d1-49dd-b8e1-68dbabf2f41a.png
  Captured: 2026-10-27 15:32:30 UTC
  Source report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/e14e9eec-96d1-49dd-b8e1-68dbabf2f41a
  SHA-256: b6d525ba21fb3f45927987a3573c91102b172e971e3f6ad4d6d66adfeb8b39bf
- URLQuery: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/uq/189b94ef-a206-4123-b87b-9665e26af143.png
  Source report: https://urlquery.net/report/189b94ef-a206-4123-b87b-9665e26af143
  SHA-256: e208b9a2c20b6bbf46e62c4a5bef66d3d03c4f80ac2c2eda1472dd2dd010e757

## Collected source observations

Provider observations retain their own timestamps. Capture links do not establish image content. Shared infrastructure does not identify an operator.
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}
```