This article was written by an AI agent working on the Matrix threat-hunting platform. Every finding below comes from read-only Matrix Elasticsearch queries, DNS lookups, plain HTTP requests, urlscan.io scans and static analysis of saved page bodies, and was reviewed by the human analyst before publication.
This is the third post on the Epic Games / Fortnite credential-phishing network. The first one mapped the infrastructure, and the second one pointed to a live urlscan.io search. Both said that the current lure domains resolved to 46[.]29[.]26[.]38. Since 2026-10-13 that is no longer true, and the search link in the second post no longer shows the current wave.
Original article: https://carlesi.vg/2026/09/09/fortnite-players-targeted-by-a-rotating-epic-games-credential-phishing-network-9-pivot-ips-4-bulletproof-hosting-24-blocks/
First update: https://carlesi.vg/2026/09/15/update-the-epic-games-fortnite-phishing-network-is-still-active/
Summary
- The lure domains moved from 46[.]29[.]26[.]38 to 193[.]187[.]110[.]10. On 2026-10-14 we probed 422 names collected from the last 30 days: 253 resolve to the new IP, and 235 of them were on the old IP in the last 30 days. It is the same portfolio, moved as a block. Only one name still resolves to the old IP, and it times out.
- 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 sits in the same /24 as 193[.]187[.]110[.]3, the host of the first wave (June and July). The actor has returned to a block it used before.
- 258 pages (new IP and 109[.]238[.]86[.]76) serve an anti-bot gate titled “Loading”, and all of them contain the
first_party_ticketmarker we used in the first article to tie the kit to Epic Online Services. The new wave is the same kit. - A second, separate cluster showed up on the same name servers: Steam sign-in clones on 194[.]238[.]57[.]99 and 43[.]173[.]34[.]136. urlscan.io rated two of them malicious (score 100). The link to the Epic actor is a shared name-server set and naming idea, which is not proof.
- 142 of the 422 names are not in our earlier IOC lists. Everything we found is listed at the end.
What changed
Until 2026-10-09 every new domain we found resolved to 46[.]29[.]26[.]38. On 2026-10-13 the names started to appear on 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 in Elasticsearch (first records at 17:32 UTC). Elasticsearch lags behind live DNS: on 2026-10-14 it showed 22 domains on the new IP, while live resolution of the names we had already collected gave 253.
How we built the list: every domain seen on 46[.]29[.]26[.]38, 193[.]187[.]110[.]10, 109[.]238[.]86[.]76 or the two Steam-cluster IPs in the last 30 days, plus every name from our 2026-10-13 probes and the earlier draft of this article. That gave 422 names. For each name we asked 1.1.1.1 for the A and NS records and sent one HTTPS GET for the home page, with no redirects and no form submission.
- 253 names resolve to 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 with DNSPod name servers. 248 serve the “Loading” gate. The other five are listed below.
- 12 names resolve to 109[.]238[.]86[.]76, the address we documented in the first article. It is active again: four names were first seen there on 2026-10-13, and 10 of the 12 serve the same gate.
- 130 names have no A record any more, and 130 of them were on the old IP in the last 30 days. This is the usual short life of this campaign’s domains.
- 9 names moved behind Cloudflare or to unrelated hosts, 5 sit on the Polymarket-themed sibling 109[.]238[.]87[.]170 and 4 on 185[.]53[.]179[.]136, which shows a Caddy default page.
The five non-gate names on the new IP are coin-upgrader[.]com and upgrader-coin[.]com (a “provably fair” crypto-upgrade game and a billing-details page, the same crypto companion theme as in the first article), fnite[.]shop (a 403 page from the SilkGuard filter), ghostcheats[.]shop (a game-cheat shop with 15 password fields, not a lure of this campaign) and fnllockervalue[.]com (HTTP 503, probably load).
Thirteen names first answered with a redirect to a block page on our own network. That was our local resolver, not the target. We repeated those requests pinned to the IP returned by 1.1.1.1 and counted the result of the pinned request.
A returning address block
193[.]187[.]110[.]3 hosted 339 lure domains between 2026-06-16 and 2026-07-27, then went quiet. The new address, 193[.]187[.]110[.]10, is in the same /24. A third address in that block, 193[.]187[.]110[.]2, appears in Elasticsearch with two unrelated crypto-staking names (twstake[.]club and stakingtw[.]com), so we do not count it. We cannot say from DNS data alone whether the actor is the same customer at the same provider, so we treat it as a strong hint and not as proof. It fits the pattern from the first article: a small pool of hosts, reused on a rotation of a few weeks.
The “Loading” gate: same kit, new host
We probed 258 pages titled “Loading”. All 258 contain the string first_party_ticket, the Epic Online Services field name that we used in the first article as content-level proof of Epic credential theft. 39 pages are about 86 KB and 219 are 2.2 to 2.4 MB, which matches the two tiers described below.
We saved two bodies, dripcheck[.]cc (86 KB) and fortking[.]top (2.2 MB), on 2026-10-13 and analysed them offline. We did not run the JavaScript in a browser and we did not call the endpoints. The page hides its strings behind a custom decoder, which we re-implemented: an XOR with a 16-byte key plus a per-index bit rotation.
- The visible text is “Making sure you’re not a bot”, with a proof-of-work counter that shows attempts, hashes per second and elapsed time.
- The light tier (about 86 KB) asks for proof of work. The heavy tier (about 2.2 to 2.4 MB) adds a CAPTCHA.
- The decoded endpoints are relative paths on the same host:
/.rt/verify(POST, JSON),/.rt/cookie-check?tier=powortier=captcha,/.rt/first-party?t=,/.rt/challenge?tier=captcha&return_to=,/.rt/captcha/verify, and a probe image under/.rt/probe/. - A Web Worker reports
userAgent,platform,hardwareConcurrencyandnavigator.webdriver, and the page probes media codecs (VP9, AV1, Opus). That is sandbox and headless-browser detection.
What sits behind the gate is still unknown to us. The marker proves that the page carries the Epic authentication code. It does not show us the credential form, and a sandboxed browser run would be needed for that.
One more Fortnite page: `fortxo[.]pro`
fortxo[.]pro is not on the DNSPod hosts. It sits behind Cloudflare name servers on 62[.]60[.]226[.]148 and serves a 3 KB page titled “Inventory Check | Fortnite”. The page is an empty shell: a script posts to /iframe on the same host and writes the HTML it receives into an iframe that is allowed to use the clipboard, payments and passkeys. What the victim sees is therefore decided by the server on each visit. We saw the shell only, and we did not call /iframe.
A second cluster: Steam sign-in clones
The same DNSPod name servers carry a different brand. Six domains first seen between 2026-10-11 and 2026-10-14 sit on 194[.]238[.]57[.]99, and one on 43[.]173[.]34[.]136. The names are signin-wishskins[.]com, choosecs2[.]skin, sign-choosecs2[.]skin, signin-workplace[.]skin, workplace[.]skin, workplace-sign[.]skin and viroffice[.]skin. Four answered at check time.
signin-wishskins[.]comandworkplace-sign[.]skinserve the same 9,989-byte page (the same SHA-256,7877634c744532705050d0f10f5dca532967f946f95a8d0b051570a45f394496): a Steam “Sign in” page with a username field, a password field, and a second form with five boxes for a Steam Guard one-time code. Two scripts,assets/js/steamlogin.jsandassets/js/login-flow.js, drive it. We did not fetch the scripts, so we do not know where the data goes. urlscan.io scored both as malicious (100).workplace[.]skinis a polished “Vote for CS2 Workshop skins” site that asks visitors to “Sign in with Steam”. It looks like the decoy front for the sign-in pages.viroffice[.]skinon 43[.]173[.]34[.]136 redirects to/login. urlscan.io captured a page titled “Kantor AI” with a score of 0.
The brand is Steam and Counter-Strike 2, and the naming is “skin”. The name servers, the .skin TLD and the timing match the Epic cluster, but the lures and the hosts are different. We list it as a related cluster and we do not attribute it to the same operator.
Why scanners show nothing for Epic
In the urlscan.io submissions we documented for this campaign up to 2026-10-06 the verdict was always malicious=False with a score of 0, and the captured page was the same “Loading” screen. The 2026-10-14 batch follows the pattern: 87 Epic names submitted and none rated malicious. urlscan.io captured 78 of them on 193[.]187[.]110[.]10, and in 9 cases the page it saw was an HTTP 429. The only two malicious verdicts in the whole batch are the Steam sign-in pages, which have no anti-bot gate. A score of 0 for the Epic pages means the gate did its job on the scanner, not that the site is clean.
Detection and hunting notes
- Pivot on the DNSPod name servers (
a.dnspod.com,b.dnspod.com,c.dnspod.com) with the naming grammar: names that start or end withfort,fn,epic,skinorlocker. It still works after the move, and it found the Steam cluster. - Watch 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 and its /24, 109[.]238[.]86[.]76, 194[.]238[.]57[.]99 and 43[.]173[.]34[.]136, next to 46[.]29[.]26[.]38.
- The string
first_party_tickettogether with “Making sure you’re not a bot” on a page titled “Loading” is a good content signature. Proxy logs may show/.rt/verifyand/.rt/cookie-check. - Hosts last a few weeks, and the portfolio moves as a whole. Expect another move.
Limits of this check
- DNS and HTTP checks were made on 2026-10-14 from one workstation, with one request per name. A 429 is rate limiting and not proof that a site is down. Two requests ended in a time-out (
fortnitechek[.]onlineand one name on the old IP). - We did not run the gate in a browser, so the Epic credential form is still unseen. We did not fetch the Steam page scripts or call
/iframeonfortxo[.]pro. - We did not look up the owner of 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 or of the Steam hosts.
- The list is what Elasticsearch and our earlier probes could find. Names we have never seen cannot be in it.
Indicators
All values are defanged. The same lists are in the analysis folder of this investigation.
Domains serving the “Loading” gate on 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 (248, DNSPod name servers):
1wtoken[.]sale aidroton[.]top arkfort[.]lol berwax[.]icu bestfortnitecheat[.]cfd boomble[.]cc ccfort[.]pro checklocker[.]info claimfreedrop[.]space coinbase-transfer[.]com connect-telegram[.]click declaration-2086[.]fr dogs-confirm[.]top dripcheck[.]cc epic-check[.]top epic-locker[.]top epic-lockers[.]info epic-outfit[.]info epic-value[.]info epic-value[.]skin epicbro[.]cc epicfnsx[.]top epicgames-gift[.]top epicgamesskins[.]com epicsikns[.]shop esdeekid[.]link esdeekid[.]site exampers[.]com fansly[.]help findacc[.]skin findfort[.]com flashyusdt[.]top fn-checker[.]com fn-locker[.]shop fn-og[.]com fn-skins[.]com fn-star[.]com fn-swap[.]com fn-sync[.]com fnbr[.]my fncheats[.]space fnchest[.]com fncoon[.]asia fnflex[.]com fninv[.]cc fninv[.]com fnlocker-price[.]net fnlocker[.]cfd fnlocker[.]my fnlooker[.]com fnlookup[.]click fnlootz[.]com fnmer[.]com fnprc[.]com fnranker[.]com fnreveal[.]com fnscan[.]cc fnscan[.]io fnscan[.]my fnscan[.]pro fnscanlab[.]com fnsnag[.]com fnstar[.]app fntlocker[.]top fnval[.]net fnvaultx[.]com fnview[.]com fnwatch[.]com forau[.]top forgonz[.]com forlocker[.]click forpamz[.]com fort-gg[.]cc fort-gg[.]com fort-loot[.]top fort-market[.]top fort-value[.]live fortac[.]xyz fortarc[.]top fortax[.]pro fortbd[.]pro fortbit[.]cc fortbond[.]com fortbroke[.]com fortcc[.]lol fortcheck[.]tech fortchecking[.]cc fortclc[.]best fortclub[.]shop fortcups[.]com fortdb[.]pro fortdm[.]com fortdm[.]pro fortdop[.]top fortdrim[.]com fortelyna[.]com fortem[.]cc forteu[.]top fortevents[.]live fortezo[.]cc fortfez[.]com fortfncs[.]com fortgame[.]click fortger[.]top fortgop[.]com fortgs[.]com fortgx[.]live forthez[.]com forthoy[.]top fortinati[.]com fortiq[.]top fortix[.]asia fortking[.]top fortkt[.]com fortlanding[.]com fortlubs[.]com fortluxe[.]skin fortmarket[.]my fortmeo[.]com fortmuz[.]com fortnag[.]com fortnevs[.]com fortng[.]com fortnice[.]cfd fortnite-checker[.]lol fortnite-checker[.]net fortnite-gift[.]top fortnite-locker[.]com fortnite-locker[.]online fortnite-market[.]top fortnite-og[.]com fortnite[.]fit fortniteawards[.]com fortnitecheckog[.]com fortnitegalaxy[.]com fortnitelockervalue[.]com fortniteog[.]cc fortniteq[.]top fortniteskinsfree[.]com fortnitestats[.]best fortnitetracker[.]site fortnitetrecker[.]com fortnitevault[.]bond fortnlte[.]sbs fortnor[.]top fortns[.]skin fortnuz[.]com fortnw[.]best fortnw[.]com fortobog[.]com fortos[.]cfd fortoval[.]com fortp[.]shop fortpat[.]com fortpray[.]top fortpro[.]surf fortq[.]cc fortqz[.]com fortracker[.]cc fortracker[.]skin fortreb[.]com fortsb[.]com fortseys[.]com fortshop[.]online fortst[.]cc fortstats[.]best fortswap[.]net fortswip[.]top fortud[.]com fortuw[.]com fortvae[.]com fortvalue[.]net fortvaluer[.]com fortvaluers[.]com fortvau[.]cc fortvaulted[.]com fortviewer[.]cc fortw[.]net fortwear[.]top fortwears[.]com fortwin[.]shop fortxen[.]top fortxeno[.]com fortzom[.]com fortzone[.]me fortzone[.]top fortzor[.]com fortzux[.]com forwex[.]xyz forxeu[.]com fpeger[.]com frtnbonus[.]top ftstater[.]com ggfort[.]icu gglocker[.]top gomosek[.]icu heleketrainrecive[.]cfd hotfort[.]top inv-proof[.]com ishowfort[.]com jiefeng[.]xyz lock-fort[.]com lockcheker[.]com lockercheck[.]xyz lockerdex[.]com lockerly[.]net lockerscan[.]net lockerwatch[.]com lockr[.]guru lockr[.]skin lockranker[.]com lootr[.]skin mfort[.]top mylocker[.]top mylockercheck[.]com ogskins[.]pro ogstatx[.]com ohuenko[.]live ohuenko[.]sbs onetaml[.]com openquas[.]com primyx[.]shop profort[.]lol prymax[.]shop prymix[.]shop rizzyfort[.]com safeton[.]rest scanmy[.]locker scinscout[.]cc skinchekerfortnite[.]skin skins-value[.]live skinsworth[.]com skinvalue[.]org skinzyfn[.]com speedfort[.]pro storfort[.]shop sync-program[.]top tildexy[.]top tonsafity[.]xyz trustaml[.]app up-fort[.]cc up-fort[.]com uplocker[.]xyz valfn[.]com venom-locker[.]online villadomreg[.]cfd webuyfn[.]com yfort[.]pro
Other names on 193[.]187[.]110[.]10 (5):
coin-upgrader[.]com fnite[.]shop fnllockervalue[.]com ghostcheats[.]shop upgrader-coin[.]com
Domains on 109[.]238[.]86[.]76 (12; 10 serve the gate, the rest answered 403 or 404):
backmyfuadas[.]lol claimsme[.]cfd claimsme[.]sbs cryptomus[.]us ebaniy-daun[.]com giftsell[.]sbs gramroulette[.]top maysevkipalantir[.]xyz polifly[.]cc stockereim[.]fun tonamlcheck[.]top tronet[.]top
Steam / CS2 sign-in cluster, 194[.]238[.]57[.]99 and 43[.]173[.]34[.]136 (4), plus names of the same pattern that had no A record on 2026-10-14:
signin-wishskins[.]com viroffice[.]skin workplace-sign[.]skin workplace[.]skin
choosecs2[.]skin sign-choosecs2[.]skin signin-workplace[.]skin
Other Fortnite-themed hosts, not on the DNSPod hosts (related, lower confidence):
fortxo[.]pro 62[.]60[.]226[.]148 "Inventory Check | Fortnite", iframe shell fortgems[.]top 185[.]53[.]179[.]136 Caddy default page, registrar.eu name servers fortnitex[.]icu 185[.]53[.]179[.]136 same fortox[.]shop 185[.]53[.]179[.]136 same fortscan[.]click 185[.]53[.]179[.]136 same fortlab[.]cc Cloudflare 301 to fortpro[.]surf fortpro[.]surf redirect target of fortlab[.]cc (not probed)
Fortnite-named domains that left the DNSPod hosts (Cloudflare or other single hosts, 6). Page content not confirmed:
dawdsdasdw[.]shop fcatex[.]com fortnitechek[.]online ftview[.]top stormeye[.]shop yoozskin[.]com
Polymarket-themed sibling cluster on 109[.]238[.]87[.]170 (5). Not Epic, listed because it shares the actor’s hosting pattern:
newpolymarket[.]com polycolo[.]com polyexort[.]cc polynice[.]shop predicthubs[.]com
Names that no longer had an A record on 2026-10-14 (130). Short-lived, kept for blocklists:
amlbot-tg[.]top asidghasdfgasudoi3yresdhgfhisdgf[.]top bexxlocker[.]fun blocklix[.]space check-fn[.]skin cryptomus-invoice[.]space dfopmy[.]icu dogs-verif[.]shop easysobreezy[.]top epic-inventory[.]info epic-locker[.]info epic-portal[.]live epicgame-store[.]com epiclocker[.]skin esdeekid[.]cc fn-locker[.]top fn-outfit[.]info fn-portal[.]info fn-portals[.]info fn-top[.]top fn-value[.]top fn1[.]world fncheck[.]global fndee[.]com fndrop[.]com fngen[.]top fnlobby[.]com fnlocker[.]club fnlocker[.]pics fnnew[.]icu fnshiina[.]com fnsum[.]com forcheck[.]top forgem[.]top fort-lock[.]com fort-locker[.]info fort-portal[.]info fort-reback[.]info fortark[.]lol fortbin[.]shop fortcheck[.]cyou fortcheck[.]vip fortcheckin[.]com fortcheckout[.]com fortcompens[.]lol fortcup[.]win fortdark[.]com fortdoh[.]com fortdrop[.]skin fortem[.]click fortfind[.]icu fortgives[.]cc forthnite[.]buzz forthnite[.]top forthub[.]vip fortine[.]top fortinvlab[.]com fortiq[.]cc fortitem[.]net fortlocker[.]click fortlockval[.]com fortmego[.]com fortnice[.]online fortnite-check[.]cfd fortnite-check[.]shop fortnite-event[.]net fortnite-mus[.]top fortnitec[.]icu fortnitejuice[.]com fortnitelockervalue[.]shop fortnitematrix[.]com fortnitemogg[.]casa fortniteskin[.]net fortnitestat[.]com fortnitevalue[.]cc fortnivo[.]com fortnx[.]skin fortolog[.]com fortpam[.]com fortprice[.]net fortranker[.]com fortrater[.]com fortreveal[.]com fortscore[.]cc fortsek[.]com fortsez[.]com fortsk[.]best fortskap[.]com fortskincheck[.]com fortsnag[.]com fortspind[.]com fortus[.]lol fortvalue[.]icu fortvel[.]com fortvez[.]com fortview[.]icu fortvop[.]top fortwal[.]best fortxen[.]com fortxet[.]top fortxkuno[.]top fortzem[.]com fortzoal[.]com fragment-auction[.]com frtnlocker[.]icu frtnplace[.]cfd ftnter[.]top golem[.]buzz itemx[.]shop krutper[.]online lockerscan[.]info lockerworth[.]best manyswap[.]top mylocker[.]club plexfort[.]top primeup[.]top prymax[.]life raregg[.]com rastnase[.]fit skinranker[.]com skinsfn[.]com sparkydigital[.]space starlocker[.]shop telegram-amlbot[.]top testweb[.]best tniteview[.]com upfort[.]pro valuechecker[.]shop vbucks[.]cfd vexnaro[.]xyz
IP addresses:
193[.]187[.]110[.]10 current wave (2026-10-13) 193[.]187[.]110[.]3 first wave, same /24 (2026-06 to 2026-07) 46[.]29[.]26[.]38 previous wave (2026-08-28 to 2026-10-09) 109[.]238[.]86[.]76 second-wave host from the first article, active again 194[.]238[.]57[.]99 Steam / CS2 sign-in cluster 43[.]173[.]34[.]136 Steam / CS2 cluster, one name 62[.]60[.]226[.]148 fortxo[.]pro 185[.]53[.]179[.]136 four fort* names, Caddy default page
File hash:
7877634c744532705050d0f10f5dca532967f946f95a8d0b051570a45f394496 Steam sign-in page (signin-wishskins[.]com, workplace-sign[.]skin)
Gate paths on each lure host:
/.rt/verify /.rt/cookie-check?tier=pow /.rt/cookie-check?tier=captcha /.rt/first-party?t= /.rt/challenge?tier=captcha&return_to= /.rt/captcha/verify
Earlier waves are listed in the original article.
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