uk[.]paying-lw[.]vip

uk.paying-lw.vip was observed hosting a page whose title is "Welcome to GOV.UK", indicating an attempt to impersonate the official UK government portal. The domain was registered on 17 December 2025 through Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) and is served by the nameservers dns19.hichina.com and dns20.hichina.com. DNS resolution points to the IPv6 address 2a04:4e42:600::144, which belongs to AS54113 Fastly, Inc. based in the United States. No TLS certificate was presented for the domain, implying that any client connection would be unencrypted HTTP.

The site was taken offline prior to the report date, and the current status is recorded as offline. Threat intelligence indicates that the domain is listed on a single security blocklist and has been blocked by the PhishDestroy mitigation service. Reputation scoring from Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0 out of 100, reflecting a high confidence of malicious intent. VirusTotal analysis shows that 16 of 95 scanned security vendors flagged the domain, providing additional corroboration of its phishing nature.

The observed page title is the sole visible artifact; no further content, login forms, or payload details have been captured. Defenders are advised to add the domain to blocklists, monitor the associated IP range and the HiChina registrar for future registrations exhibiting similar naming patterns, and enforce transport-layer security checks to prevent unencrypted connections. Continuous observation of Fastly‑hosted infrastructure for related abuse may aid in early detection of successor campaigns.