Criticalscore 100 · flagged Sunday, September 6, 2026

vanguardnet.app

Appeared in the .app zone on Sunday, September 6, 2026; by the end of that day the census found active website about gaming. Full domain report

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What matched

brand in the name
matched: vanguard
+30
brand name on a rarely-seen nameserver
matched: shockhosting.com
+6
page asks for credentials
matched: Log in to your account
+30
brand in page title, not in the name
matched: xbox
+20
Registrar
Nameserver provider
Nameservers
ns1.shockhosting.com, ns2.shockhosting.com
First-day state
active website
HTTP status
200
Page title
VanguardNET — Xbox 360 modding, one tool
Has a form
no
Brand echoed
vanguard

Model opinions

Second opinionsuspiciousconfidence 55%· claude-opus-5

Page is a self-branded product site (VanguardNET) selling an Xbox 360 JTAG/RGH modding and memory-editing tool with its own account login and licence keys — 'Xbox' is descriptive, not impersonation of Microsoft, and 'Vanguard' is not being used to pose as the asset manager, so this is not phishing; the residual concern is that it distributes a console-hacking/cheat binary, a grey-area download worth watching.

First passlooks like abuseconfidence 92%· claude-haiku-4-5

VanguardNET is a self-branded Xbox 360 modding tool with its own login, not impersonating Microsoft or Xbox. However, the combination of a credential form on a sealed-room domain (no offsite links, form posts to itself), use of a rare hosting provider (shockhosting.com), and the new registration creates a phishing infrastructure profile. The page claims to be a 'licensed' modding tool, but Xbox 360 modding tools enabling game piracy are abuse. This appears to be a phishing/credential-harvesting

A model looked at the screenshot and page text and wrote what it thought. It can be wrong, and it is not a finding.

What the page looked like on Sunday, September 6, 2026

Screenshot of vanguardnet.app taken by the zone census on 2026-09-06

Same data as JSON: /api/zone/domain/vanguardnet.app. This page is not indexed by search engines and does not link to the site it describes.