mastercard[.]com-ins[.]icu

On July 25, 2026, the domain mastercard.com-ins.icu was identified as a brand‑impersonation site. The domain was created on November 20, 2025 and is registered through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. It resolves to the IP address 23.54.214.151, which belongs to AS16625 Akamai Technologies, Inc. in the United States. The authoritative nameservers are erin.ns.cloudflare.com and sage.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating the use of Cloudflare DNS services. No TLS certificate was presented for the site, meaning traffic is delivered over plain HTTP.

The page title returned by the server is "Apply for a Mastercard | priceless specials," which aligns with the declared scam type of brand impersonation. Reputation data shows the domain is flagged by 15 of 95 security vendors on VirusTotal and appears on a single security blocklist. Gridinsoft assigned a trust score of 0 out of 100, and the site has been blocked by the PhishDestroy service. The current operational status is offline, suggesting the hosting has been taken down or the site has been otherwise disabled.

Defenders should add the domain and its resolving IP to block lists, ensure that any inbound or outbound traffic to the IP is denied, and update email and web filtering rules to catch references to the observed page title. Continuous monitoring of the registrar Gname.com and the Cloudflare nameserver pattern may reveal additional malicious domains employing the same infrastructure. Because the site lacks SSL, any future re‑activation would be observable in clear‑text HTTP logs, providing an early indicator for remediation.