zargatesfi[.]com

Analysis of zargatesfi.com indicates a high‑risk phishing operation that remains active as of 12 July 2026. The domain was registered on 16 April 2026 through Dynadot Inc and resolves to Cloudflare‑hosted IP 104.21.68.231 located in Canada. SSL is provided by Let’s Encrypt (E7). HTTP responses return status 521, suggesting the origin server is refusing connections, a pattern often observed with malicious front‑ends behind Cloudflare. The page title returned by the site is “ZarGates,” but no further content has been captured, leaving the exact phishing payload undefined. Infrastructure profiling shows the site runs on Plesk with PHP and loads Google Hosted Libraries and Google Font API, while Cloudflare Browser Insights and HTTP/3 are active, confirming modern delivery mechanisms. Threat intelligence flags are robust: four of ninety‑four VirusTotal scanners have flagged the domain, it appears on three public blocklists, and it is listed in twenty‑two AlienVault OTX pulses. Defensive services such as PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL have already blocked the domain, and Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0 / 100. Given the convergence of registration recency, active blocking, multiple vendor detections, and the presence in numerous threat pulses, security teams should add the domain to DNS and URL filtering blocks, monitor outbound traffic for connections to 104.21.68.231, and keep watch for any related sub‑domains that may share the same Cloudflare infrastructure. Further investigation of the site’s landing page content is recommended to confirm the specific credential‑harvesting technique employed.