Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign
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Claim-checked. Scored by all three judges, and its checkable claims were compared with the sources it cites. How far stories are checked
InfoHawk researchers report 820 look-alike domains impersonating 35 restaurant chains, 808 of them on .delivery, with Jimmy John's, Firehouse Subs and Jersey Mike's most cloned. The sites reverse-proxy the real ordering pages and swap in a checkout that collects card details and the bank's SMS code, so no restaurant site needs to be breached. The figures come from InfoHawk's own two research passes, with no independent source given. For teams running ordering or payment flows, it shows why typosquat monitoring and one-time-code phishing defenses matter.
Why it ranked
No. 4 of 107 with a score of 0.72. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.92) and substantiated (0.85), lowest on audience breadth (0.60). Placed No. 4, where the score alone would also have put it: the fourth Security story of the day (−0.020). The placement terms move stories; they are not part of the score.
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Detailed investigation of a reverse-proxy payment-skimming campaign with technical mechanics and hundreds of domains; strong security relevance, mostly consumer-facing fraud, partly unverified operator claims.}
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- A well-supported investigation documents a large, technically sophisticated payment-skimming campaign, including reverse-proxy mechanics, MFA interception, domain scale, ad distribution, and actionable implications for security and online payments.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.72total under rubric v2.3
- Significance0.65
- Reader interest0.83
- Audience breadth0.60
- Practical relevance0.73
- Substantiated0.85
- Technical depth0.84
- New information0.92
- Counts against: Promotional0.04
- Counts against: Overclaim0.16
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SignificanceHow much does this change what people in tech know or can do? | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.78 | 0.65 | 0.20 | +0.24 | +0.157 |
| Reader interestWould a well-informed senior engineer or tech founder want to read this today, and likely pass it on? | 0.71 | 0.85 | 0.94 | 0.83 | 0.23 | +0.26 | +0.217 |
| Audience breadthHow many people who build technology does it concern? | 0.48 | 0.70 | 0.62 | 0.60 | 0.22 | +0.13 | +0.078 |
| Practical relevanceHow useful is it to someone who builds software or tech products? | 0.67 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.09 | +0.22 | +0.160 |
| SubstantiatedHow well is it backed? Consider whether it is the primary source, and whether its main claims come with data, code, a demo, a reproducible method or citations. | 0.90 | 0.80 | 0.86 | 0.85 | 0.10 | +0.05 | +0.043 |
| Technical depthHow technically substantive is it? | 0.93 | 0.75 | 0.83 | 0.84 | 0.18 | +0.05 | +0.042 |
| New informationDoes it contain information absent from the stories covered in the last 7 days (list provided)? | 0.93 | 0.85 | 0.97 | 0.92 | 0.12 | +0.05 | +0.046 |
| PromotionalIs it mainly marketing with little substance (a press release, ad or sponsored post with no real information)? A launch post that carries real news is not promotional. | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.06 | −0.19 | −0.007 |
| OverclaimDo the headline or conclusions claim more than the body supports? | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.08 | −0.11 | −0.018 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.718 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.718 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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Claim check: 8 no source given. Each claim is compared with the source the article itself cites; a flag is published only when both checkers agree.
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InfoHawk identified 820 domains impersonating 35 restaurant brands across two research passes.
The article gives no link or citation for it.
The article says “Across two research passes, we identified 820 domains impersonating 35 restaurant brands”
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Of the 820 domains, 808 use the .delivery top-level domain and the rest use .com or .shop.
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The article says “Of those, 808 use the .delivery top-level domain, and the rest use .com or .shop”
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Searching Google's Ads Transparency Center found at least 47 Google Search text ads between July 7 and October 20, 2026, run under at least 46 advertiser accounts with at least 43 different business names.
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The article says “found at least 47 Google Search text ads between July 7, 2026, and October 20, 2026, run under at least 46 separate advertiser accounts”
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On November 4, 2026, 367 of the 820 domains still served a site.
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The article says “On November 4, 2026, 367 of the 820 domains still served a site”
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761 of the 820 domains use Cloudflare nameservers, 11 use other nameservers, and 48 have none.
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The article says “761 of the 820 domains use Cloudflare nameservers, 11 use other nameservers, and 48 have none”
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In the first sweep of 255 domains, 251 were registered at Dynadot, spread across 111 Cloudflare nameserver pairs.
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The article says “In our first sweep of 255 domains, 251 were registered at Dynadot, spread across 111 Cloudflare nameserver pairs”
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No source givenCausal conclusion
The attackers reverse-proxy the legitimate restaurant site while replacing the checkout payment form with a malicious one that also requests the bank's SMS verification code.
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The article says “reverse-proxying the legitimate site while replacing the checkout payment form with a malicious one”
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No source givenCausal conclusion
No order reaches the restaurant after the victim pays on the fake site, so there is no confirmation email and no food.
The article gives no link or citation for it.
The article says “No order reaches the restaurant: the real payment step never runs, so there is no confirmation email and no food”
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Elsewhere
Elsewhere: HN 107 pts, front page
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