Airwallex Phishing: PhishReaper’s Agentic AI Illuminates a Multi-Year Operation Hidden in Plain Sight


AirWallex Phishing: PhishReaper’s Agentic AI Illuminates a Multi-Year Operation Hidden in Plain Sight

For years, a sprawling phishing campaign impersonating Airwallex, one of the world’s leading fintech institutions, has quietly thrived in the shadows. Dozens became hundreds — domains registered days ago, months ago, even years ago — each built to ensnare victims while remaining completely invisible to the global phishing detection and “cybersecurity” ecosystem.

Invisible not because they were sophisticated.
Invisible because nobody was looking deeply enough.

A Campaign Hiding in Plain Sight

When PhishReaper’s Agentic AI started peeling back layers of the Airwallex campaign, the findings were stark:

  • Brand-new phishing domains—as fresh as 24 hours old—were already being used in active lure operations.

  • Long-lived phishing domains, registered years ago, continued operating without a single flag.

  • Cloaked infrastructures that redirected visitors to the legitimate Airwallex homepage, giving scanners a false sense of safety.

  • Replica landing pages stolen from other industries entirely, acting as decoys while the underlying infrastructure harvested credentials.

  • Whole clusters of related domains tied together via infrastructure, behavioral fingerprints, impersonation dictionaries and cloaking tactics— yet none detected by any traditional phishing detection vendor.

Airwallex Phishing Website at cloaked stage - disguised behind another website's landing page code.
Airwallex Phishing Website at cloaked stage – disguised behind another website’s landing page code.
Airwallex Phishing Website harvesting customer credentials.
Airwallex Phishing Website harvesting customer credentials.

Every domain was checked across global threat intelligence sources.
Every single one returned the same verdict: Clean. Untouched. Unknown.

Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors.

Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors.

Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors.

Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors. Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors. Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors. Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors. Airwallex Phishing Website marked as clean by all of world's top cybersecurity vendors.

The world never saw this campaign.
PhishReaper’s Agentic AI did.

Why The World Missed It

Despite billions spent on threat intelligence, takedown automation, and URL scanning infrastructure, this campaign passed through every layer of traditional defense:

  • Cloaking Killed Detection

    • Redirection to legitimate sites misled scanners, threat feeds, and brand protection tools.
  • Replica Pages Confused Classification

    • Many of these phishing websites didn’t resemble
  • Stale Intelligence = Blind Spots

    • Years-old phishing domains should have been found long ago. Instead, they aged into legitimacy while quietly harvesting victims.
  • Fragmented, Feed-Based Detection Simply Can’t Compete

    • Feeds only catch what someone else has already found. Nobody found these.

This is the harsh reality of the modern threat landscape: Attackers are innovating. Defenders are not.

PhishReaper Lights Up the Dark

Where global threat feeds, scanners, and brand-protection ecosystems failed, PhishReaper’s Agentic AI didn’t just detect isolated domains — it unraveled the entire campaign.

Before anyone else knew it existed.

PhishReaper didn’t wait for:

  • user reports

  • takedown notices

  • blocklists

  • community feeds

  • reputation thresholds

It acted from first principles:
intent, behavior, infrastructure, and pattern recognition.

And the result was undeniable:

👉 PhishReaper surfaced hundreds of Airwallex-impersonating domains

👉 Spanning multiple years

👉 With massive clusters still active today

👉 All completely unflagged by every major detection and intelligence provider

This wasn’t detection.
This was illumination.

The Ominous Truth

If a campaign this large, this old, this active, and this interconnected can operate for years without a single global alert…

What else is out there?
What other campaigns are silently harvesting victims under the complete oblivion of the world’s defenses?

The failure wasn’t Airwallex.
It wasn’t the victims.
It wasn’t the brands.

It was the global detection ecosystem—designed for yesterday’s phishing, not today’s agentic adversaries.

Enter PhishReaper — Where Phishing Dies at Birth

PhishReaper isn’t a feed.
It isn’t a blacklist.
It isn’t waiting for the world to notice a threat before it responds.

PhishReaper:

  • Discovers emerging campaigns before the first lure is even sent

  • Maps entire malicious infrastructures autonomously

  • Tracks cross-brand impersonation clusters

  • Detects cloak-based evasion that blinds every traditional scanner

  • Exposes long-term sleeper domains hidden for years

Where others scrape yesterday’s intelligence,
PhishReaper writes tomorrow’s.

Where others analyze URLs,
PhishReaper reveals empires.

Where others see a “clean, safe domain,”
PhishReaper sees intent, behavior, and pattern.

This isn’t threat detection.
This is phishing extinction.

The Drumbeat

PhishReaper is not just detecting phishing.
It is hunting campaigns.
It is disturbing the silent networks that hide beneath everyone’s radar.
It is dragging threats into the light—before anyone else even knows they exist.

And in the quiet, shadowed corners of the internet where Airwallex phishers thought they were safe for years…

PhishReaper’s Agentic AI is beating its drum.
Deep, resonant, unignorable.
A warning to attackers everywhere:

Your darkness ends here.

P.S., Airwallex team or anyone else related for that matter can contact us at support@phishreaper.ai to get a complete list of campaign websites.

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