omni-variational.io-uk.icu is an impersonation phishing page that copied the look of a legitimate service to win visitors' trust. Its "Service Status" title fits the classic pretext of an outage or maintenance notice that urges users to log in or verify their account. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-09-11, and it went offline the next day, 2026-09-12. When last checked on 2026-10-19, the domain no longer resolved in DNS.
How the scam works
Fake status pages work by creating urgency. A visitor is told a service is degraded or their account needs attention, then pushed toward a login form, a "reconnect" step or a request for recovery details. Anything typed there goes straight to the operators, who use it to take over the real account or empty the funds behind it. The page title names no specific brand, but our classification rests on the site imitating a legitimate service.
Evidence
Nine of 89 engines on VirusTotal flagged the domain as of 2026-09-14. The vendors include BitDefender, ESET, Kaspersky, G-Data, Gridinsoft, alphaMountain.ai, CRDF and LevelBlue. That is a modest count, but it comes from several unrelated security vendors that reached the same verdict independently. PhishDestroy lists the domain on its own blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. on 2026-09-06, five days before we detected it. Its total online life was under a week, a short, disposable pattern common to phishing domains that are burned once flagged. The name stacks misleading labels such as "io-uk" on a cheap .icu domain to look like an official subdomain. It sat behind Cloudflare, with the edge address geolocated to Canada, which hides the real origin server.
What to do
If you entered a password on this page, change it right away on the genuine service and on any account that reuses it. Then turn on app-based or hardware two-factor authentication and sign out all other sessions. If you typed a seed phrase or private key, treat that wallet as compromised and move your funds to a new wallet you create offline. Defenders should block the domain and look for similar .icu names in mail and proxy logs. Users should also be warned that real outage notices never ask for credentials or recovery phrases.
The linked repository preserves daily zone observations across seven ShortDot-operated TLDs, including registration volume and abuse-related indicators. This registry context is supporting background and is not an independent detection for the domain in this report.
For the registrable domain io-uk.icu behind this subdomain, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
Accreditation is a contract, not a safety certification.
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.
Certificate fingerprintf964f07906b83996a033760e01b6e045b3bcab2051a03c69cc7fa062dbea4cc9Certificate names · 1 SANs
io-uk.icu
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 非アクティブreason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation不明Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 01:13:46 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-11 10:08:39 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-11 10:08:39 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 462.10hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-21 01:11:47 UTC · precision low · basis bounded
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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