adpend[.]capital

The domain adpend.capital was registered on February 21, 2026 and is presently taken offline. DNS resolution points to the IP address 91.99.199.199, which is hosted in Germany by Hetzner Online GmbH under ASN 24940. The server presented an SSL certificate labeled “E8”, indicating a potentially self‑signed or low‑trust certificate. The site’s HTML title reads “Adpend Labs - Consistent DeFi Yield, Verified by Experts”, a phrasing commonly used in cryptocurrency‑yield fraud campaigns.

Intelligence flags the domain as a crypto‑scam that impersonates the brand Across, matching the “brand impersonation” threat type recorded in the source data. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and has been flagged by PhishDestroy. VirusTotal analysis shows that one of ninety‑three scanning engines reported the domain as malicious, reinforcing the suspicion of malicious intent. Because the site is currently offline, active probing is limited, and the exact content served at the time of operation cannot be confirmed beyond the page title.

Defenders should continue to monitor the associated IP 91.99.199.199 for any resurrection of services, add the domain to blocklists at the network perimeter, and enforce strict outbound filtering for cryptocurrency‑related traffic to mitigate potential lure attempts. Incident response teams should also audit any logs for connections to this IP or hostname during the window between registration and the observed takedown, as adversaries may have leveraged the short‑lived domain for credential harvesting or fund‑drainage campaigns. Further analysis of the SSL certificate chain and any residual TLS fingerprints could aid attribution to the hosting provider and inform future threat‑intel sharing.