apexstudios[.]art

apexstudios.art was registered on 28 February 2026 through Hostinger Operations UAB. The domain resolves to the IPv4 address 192.211.49.150, which is advertised as belonging to AS29802 HiveLocity, Inc. and is geolocated in the United States. DNS resolution uses the authoritative nameservers ns1.3secureserver.xyz and ns2.3secureserver.xyz. No TLS certificate was observed, indicating the site was served over plain HTTP.

The page title returned during the brief online period was “Apex Studios | NFT Marketplace – Create, Collect & Sell Exclusive Digital Assets,” suggesting an attempt to impersonate a legitimate NFT marketplace. The site was identified and taken down by the PhishDestroy mitigation service and is currently listed as offline. Threat intelligence feeds have placed the domain on a single security blocklist, and two of ninety‑three VirusTotal scanners flagged the domain as malicious. These indicators collectively point to a generic phishing operation that likely aimed to harvest credentials or lure victims into a fraudulent NFT transaction flow.

Because the service is already offline, immediate remediation consists of ensuring that any cached URLs are blocked at the network perimeter and that the associated IP address 192.211.49.150 is added to deny lists. Continuous monitoring of the hosting provider and the nameserver domains is advised, as the operator may reuse the same infrastructure for future campaigns. Defenders should also watch for similar page‑title patterns targeting NFT platforms and consider sharing the indicator set with upstream threat‑sharing communities.