surgehq.io presents itself as "Surge — AI Workforce Platform", borrowing the name and look of an AI workforce service to win the trust of businesses and individual users. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page and first flagged it on 2026-09-28. As of 2026-10-19 the domain was still live and redirecting visitors elsewhere, so the lure remains active.
How the scam works
Impersonation pages like this copy a real or plausible product's branding, here an AI workforce platform, so that visitors feel they are on an official site. The usual goal is to get people to sign in, register, connect accounts or pay for a plan, handing account credentials, personal details or payment information to the operators. Because the domain now redirects, visitors may be sent on to a different page that carries out the actual collection. Victims risk losing account access, money paid for a service that does not exist, and any data they typed in.
Evidence
On 2026-10-03, 6 of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, SOCRadar, URLQuery and VIPRE. That is a modest count, but it comes from several unrelated vendors that reached the same conclusion independently. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses, where other researchers have tied it to malicious activity, and it is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Namecheap on 2026-06-05, roughly 115 days before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests it was set up in advance and given time to age before the campaign drew attention. It resolves to 216.198.79.1 on Amazon's network in the United States. Its Let's Encrypt certificate is free and issued automatically, so the browser padlock shows only that the connection is encrypted and says nothing about whether the site is legitimate.
What to do
If you signed in or registered on surgehq.io, change that password immediately, along with the password on any other account where you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. If you entered card or bank details, contact your bank to block the card and dispute any charges, and watch your statements closely. Treat follow-up emails or messages that mention Surge with suspicion, and reach the real service only through channels you have verified yourself. Defenders should block the domain and its IP at the DNS, proxy and email gateway level, and search logs for any users who visited or were redirected through it.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Latest HTTP observationRedirectingHTTP redirect observed80%2026-10-19 22:32:47 UTC
RDAP registration未知
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:38 UTC
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.
Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
app.surgehq.ioDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
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Vercel
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Vercel is a cloud platform for static frontends and serverless functions.
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After a phishing incident
针对受害者的建议与指导
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
我应该立即采取什么措施？
紧急
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
更改所有密码 — 电子邮件、Exchange 账户，以及任何使用同一密码的账户
启用双因素认证 使用身份验证器应用（而非短信）。禁用基于短信的恢复功能
冻结卡片 如果您在钓鱼网站上输入了银行信息
我应该为报告收集哪些信息？
联邦调查局（FBI）指南
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.
当地警方 — 即使无法立即采取行动，也能留下正式记录
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
How do phishing scams typically work?
虚假网站 — 与正规网站完全一致的克隆网站，仅域名略有改动
猪的屠宰 — 通过Telegram/WhatsApp/交友软件花数周时间建立信任，随后钱被骗走
退款诈骗 — 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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