Is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com safe?
http://ikbr.scottishclimbs.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Fake Interactive Brokers login page served from a subdomain of a defunct Scottish climbing site
ikbr.scottishclimbs.com shows the Interactive Brokers logo and wordmark above a Live/Paper toggle, Username and Password fields and a blue Login button, but the address bar is a subdomain of a climbing-community domain rather than interactivebrokers.com. Two antivirus families label the host as phishing, and the page is served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so anything typed into the form would travel unencrypted to an unidentified party. This is a credential-harvesting page, not a broker login.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan2 antivirus engines flagged this URLEmsisoft, LevelBlueWhere this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 12/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- ModerateThe page displays the Interactive Brokers logo and wordmark with a Live/Paper toggle, username and password fields and a Login button, imitating the broker's sign-in.
- MinorThe address bar host is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com, a subdomain of a climbing-community domain, not interactivebrokers.com.
- MinorThe parent domain is 350 days old and public history shows the original climbing site shut down around 2013, so the name was re-registered by a later holder.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the host.
- SupportsThe Cloudflare hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 26 saved reports.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on ikbr.scottishclimbs.com, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
ikbr.scottishclimbs.com shows the Interactive Brokers logo and wordmark above a Live/Paper toggle, Username and Password fields and a blue Login button, but the address bar is a subdomain of a climbing-community domain rather than interactivebrokers.com. Two antivirus families label the host as phishing, and the page is served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so anything typed into the form would travel unencrypted to an unidentified party. This is a credential-harvesting page, not a broker login.
The login form does not belong to the brand it displays
The page reproduces the Interactive Brokers identity: the logo and wordmark sit above a login card with a Live/Paper account toggle, a username field, a password field with a reveal icon, a blue Login button, a 'Need help?' link and a 'Don't have an account? Try the free trial' prompt. The footer even lists InteractiveBrokers.com with an external-link icon alongside IBKR Desktop, Trader Workstation, IBKR Mobile, IBKR GlobalTrader and IBKR APIs.
The host, however, is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com — a subdomain of a climbing-community domain, not interactivebrokers.com. A real broker login is never served from a third party's domain, so the branding is a costume over someone else's infrastructure.
The parent domain scottishclimbs.com was registered only 350 days before this review, and public history shows the original Scottish climbing community site shut down around 2013 and its wiki content was migrated elsewhere. The name was later re-registered, and the current holder has no visible connection to a brokerage.
Clean infrastructure checks do not make the form safe to use
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the Cloudflare hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 26 saved reports, and a valid TLS certificate exists for the host. Those facts describe the hosting and the certificate, not who receives the credentials.
The antivirus picture is split rather than unanimous: 2 of 93 engines flagged the host, with Emsisoft and LevelBlue classifying it as phishing, while the rest returned harmless or undetected. A minority detection on a brand-new host is common for freshly deployed phishing pages, and it lines up with what the page actually does.
The scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so a password typed into the form would cross the network unencrypted. The page also discloses no operator, registration ID, email, phone or address, and the page was too long for the reader to reach the footer, so contact details further down were not reviewed.
Why the score is 12
2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 93
detectionsFresh result
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| EmsisoftMalicious | phishing |
| LevelBlueMalicious | phishing |
All 93 engine results
- Emsisoft - phishing - Malicious
- LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefenderhobbies
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekersports
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual warning signs were identified
Page displays the InteractiveBrokers logo and wordmark above a login card with a Live/Paper toggle, Username and Password fields, a blue 'Login' button, 'Need help?' and 'Don't have an account? Try the free trial' links. A password field with a reveal (eye) icon and a username field are presented for entry; no other data fields are visible. Footer lists 'InteractiveBrokers.com' with an external-link icon plus IBKR Desktop, Trader Workstation (TWS), IBKR Mobile, IBKR GlobalTrader, IBKR Forecast Trader (NEW) and IBKR APIs, and 'Contact Us | About Our Trading Platform'. The address bar host is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com, a subdomain of a climbing-community domain, not interactivebrokers.com, while the page claims to be the broker's login.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Page displays the InteractiveBrokers logo and wordmark above a login card with a Live/Paper toggle, Username and Password fields, a blue 'Login' button, 'Need help?' and 'Don't have an account? Try the free trial' links.
- 02
A password field with a reveal (eye) icon and a username field are presented for entry; no other data fields are visible.
- 03
Footer lists 'InteractiveBrokers.com' with an external-link icon plus IBKR Desktop, Trader Workstation (TWS), IBKR Mobile, IBKR GlobalTrader, IBKR Forecast Trader (NEW) and IBKR APIs, and 'Contact Us | About Our Trading Platform'.
- 04
The address bar host is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com, a subdomain of a climbing-community domain, not interactivebrokers.com, while the page claims to be the broker's login.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
The captured page appears to offer a login portal service.
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Login Portal
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Two antivirus families, Emsisoft and LevelBlue, classify the host as phishing; 2 of 93 engines returned a detection.
- 022 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- 03The parent domain is 350 days old and public history shows the original climbing site shut down around 2013, so the name was re-registered by a later holder.
What this means for you
What happens if someone types their broker credentials here
A visitor who believes this is the Interactive Brokers sign-in enters their username and password into the form on ikbr.scottishclimbs.com. Because the host is not the broker's domain, those credentials go to whoever controls this subdomain, not to Interactive Brokers.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The submission is made over an unencrypted HTTP connection with no HTTPS redirect, so the credentials are also exposed in transit rather than protected by the certificate that exists for the host.
The page offers no operator identity, registration number or contact channel, so there is no accountable party to approach afterwards if an account is taken over.
Do not enter any Interactive Brokers username, password or one-time code on this page. Close it and reach your broker only by typing interactivebrokers.com into the address bar or using the official app. If you already signed in here, change your Interactive Brokers password immediately, enable two-factor authentication and tell the broker's support team that your credentials were submitted to ikbr.scottishclimbs.com.
Web research findings
Independent findings for ikbr.scottishclimbs.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for ikbr.scottishclimbs.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainikbr.scottishclimbs.com
- Redirects toikbr.scottishclimbs.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Nov 20, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 6, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for scottishclimbs.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. · The page displays the Interactive Brokers logo and wordmark with a Live/Paper toggle, username and password fields and a Login button, imitating the broker's sign-in.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 6, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 6, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com a scam or a legit website?
Is ikbr.scottishclimbs.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to ikbr.scottishclimbs.com?
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Did ikbr.scottishclimbs.com steal my password or personal information?
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Why does ikbr.scottishclimbs.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has ikbr.scottishclimbs.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Fake Interactive Brokers login page served from a subdomain of a defunct Scottish climbing site
ikbr.scottishclimbs.com shows the Interactive Brokers logo and wordmark above a Live/Paper toggle, Username and Password fields and a blue Login button, but the address bar is a subdomain of a climbing-community domain rather than interactivebrokers.com. Two antivirus families label the host as phishing, and the page is served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so anything typed into the form would travel unencrypted to an unidentified party. This is a credential-harvesting page, not a broker login.
09 · Community
Community
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