verizon[.]com-vdkq[.]cc

The domain verizon.com-vdkq.cc was observed on July 23, 2026 as part of a brand‑impersonation campaign targeting the x.com brand. The domain was registered through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. on 16 December 2025 and is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure, resolving to IP 104.21.48.204, which belongs to AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.) and is geolocated in the United States. DNS resolution uses the Cloudflare authoritative nameservers marty.ns.cloudflare.com and rafe.ns.cloudflare.com. No TLS certificate was presented for the host, and an HTTP request returned the generic page title “Welcome to nginx!”, indicating that the site was serving a default web‑server page rather than a crafted login portal. Reputation signals are uniformly negative.

The domain appears on a single security blocklist and was flagged by PhishDestroy. Gridinsoft assigned a trust score of 0 out of 100, the lowest possible rating. VirusTotal recorded 13 positive detections out of 95 scanned scanners, confirming that multiple security products consider the host malicious. The site has been taken offline at the time of reporting.

The available evidence confirms that the domain is being used to impersonate x.com, but the exact content and phishing kit remain unverified because the site returned only the default nginx page. Consequently, analysts cannot determine whether credential‑harvesting forms or redirects were deployed before the takedown. Defenders should add verizon.com-vdkq.cc to network‑level blocklists, enforce DNS filtering, and monitor for other sub‑domains that use similar naming patterns or the same Cloudflare IP range. Continuous observation of newly registered domains from the same registrar and rapid scanning with multi‑engine services are recommended to detect future iterations of this campaign.