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Analysis of hbar.airdropsalert.bar shows a newly registered domain created on 20 Oct 2025 that is being used to impersonate Google in a crypto‑scam campaign. The domain is registered through Dynadot LLC and is hosted on Cloudflare name servers brenna.ns.cloudflare.com and hassan.ns.cloudflare.com. DNS resolution points to IP 142.250.185.68, which belongs to AS15169 owned by Google LLC and is located in the United States. Despite the legitimate‑looking IP, the site lacks an SSL certificate, providing no transport‑level authentication.

Google Safe Browsing has flagged the URL for social engineering, and Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0/100, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. VirusTotal reports that 15 of 95 security vendors have marked the domain as malicious, and the domain appears on one external blocklist. PhishDestroy has already taken the site offline, and the current HTTP status is offline. The page title returned is “Google”, matching the declared brand target.

The only confirmed malicious behavior is the brand impersonation and the classification as a crypto scam; no further payload or command‑and‑control infrastructure has been observed. Defenders should add the domain to internal blocklists, monitor DNS queries for the associated IP range, and enforce strict TLS inspection to prevent any future use of the same infrastructure. Continuous monitoring of the registrar Dynadot for new domains that resolve to the same IP or use the same Cloudflare name servers is recommended, as the infrastructure may be reused in subsequent campaigns. Organizations should also educate users about unsolicited crypto‑related offers that claim to originate from Google, reinforcing the policy that Google never requests private keys or cryptocurrency transfers.