SafePal says a breach exposed personal data of 39,798 customers, but not wallet credentials, private keys, seed phrases, or payment information. SafePal disclosed a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after hackers exploited a vulnerability in its order-tracking plugin. The flaw exposed information linked to orders placed between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and order details. “Recently, the team identified an authorization flaw in the order-tracking function for a plug-in associated with customer order information. Under certain conditions, the flaw allowed unauthorized access to another customer’s order information.” reads the notice published by the company. “We are extremely sorry to inform the community that order information for customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026. Information including name, email address, shipping address, phone number, and purchase details, was accessed externally without authorization due to the flaw. The affected data involves approximately 39,798 customers.” SafePal is a Singapore-based company focused on cryptocurrency security. It develops hardware and software wallets that let users securely store and manage digital assets. Its products include hardware wallets, a mobile app and browser-based tools supporting multiple blockchains and cryptocurrencies. The disclosure came as a threat actor began advertising the stolen data on a cybercrime forum, claiming the same number of affected customers. SafePal confirmed the security breach incident, while warning users about the exposure of their personal and order-related information. The company said all affected customers were notified individually by email on August 16 and urged them to check their status. The exposed order data could enable more convincing phishing attempts, including fake support calls, emails, refund offers, firmware updates or malicious websites designed to steal additional information. SafePal stressed that seed phrases, private keys and wallet passwords were not exposed, so customers do not need to move their assets solely because of the breach. However, anyone who has shared a seed phrase or private key with an attacker should consider the wallet compromised, create a new one using a trusted device or official app, and immediately transfer the remaining funds. The crypto firm said the breach did not expose seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords or other wallet credentials. Bank details, payment card numbers and government IDs were also not involved. The company pointed out it does not collect or store such information and found no evidence that the incident compromised access to customer wallets or funds. “However, if you have already shared or entered your seed phrase or private key in response to a suspicious message, website, phone call, or letter, treat that wallet as compromised.” continyes the notice. “Create a new wallet using a trusted SafePal device or official SafePal application, and move your remaining assets to the new wallet immediately. Lastly, contact SafePal through our official support channel.” SafePal said it has fixed the vulnerability and added further security measures, with an independent security firm reviewing the fix and order-processing systems. The company also reduced data retention to 90 days, contacted affected customers and logistics partners, and opened a dedicated support channel. The firm identified more than 30 fraudulent websites and phishing links and removed them. It will continue monitoring scams, investigating potential risks and sharing updates through its official channels. SafePal urges customers who suffered financial losses linked to the breach to contact the company, which is working with specialists to trace stolen on-chain assets. “For more FAQs and details, we will keep updating the dedicated webpage for this incident.” concludes the notice. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, SafePal)
GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478, has been rated Critical by GitLab and assigned a CVSS score of 9.4. Released on
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias "
Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster since December 2025 has led to the discovery of previously unreported components that expand the
MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in MCP server security. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI agents to reach the tools and data,
Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted its secure messaging service and caused severe communication issues. Organizations using Threema On-Prem were not affected, as their deployments run on their own infrastructure. Threema is a Swiss paid secure messaging service, similar to WhatsApp or Signal, focused heavily on privacy and security. “If the attack originates simultaneously from multiple (and potentially changing) sources, it is referred to as a “Distributed Denial of Service” (DDoS) attack. This makes the attack significantly more difficult to defend against because it is not possible to simply block a single source.” reads the report. “Because sophisticated attackers constantly change their methods, sources, and attack patterns during an attack, a cat-and-mouse game ensues, with both sides continuously reacting to the other’s most recent action.” Users began reporting Threema outages on Tuesday evening. The company initially blamed a network issue at its colocation provider, but later confirmed it was facing a series of DDoS attacks. The attacks caused intermittent disruptions into Wednesday, with users in several countries still reporting problems even after Threema’s status page showed the service as operational. The company said a series of large-scale DDoS attacks also targeted its colocation partner, Nine. Attack patterns kept changing, making mitigation difficult. The service was unavailable for about four hours Tuesday evening, followed by intermittent outages Wednesday morning. Normal operations were restored at 12:23 p.m. CEST. “It is not entirely clear whether Threema was the primary target or whether the attacks were directed at multiple targets. In any case, they continued over an extended period and their patterns were constantly adapted, making them difficult to defend against.” continues the report. “As a result of these attacks, Threema was unavailable on Tuesday between 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. CEST. The page providing information on the current system status was initially not updated due to a technical issue unrelated to the attack. We therefore temporarily took it offline until the problem was resolved.” Threema communicated the service disruptions progressively through social media, while Threema Work customers received updates by email. To strengthen its defenses, Threema deployed additional upstream DDoS protection on August 14, filtering malicious traffic before it reached its infrastructure. The company also plans to improve its status page with an incident history and RSS feed, giving users and administrators another way to receive independent service updates. “We will also expand the status page in the coming days. The update will include an incident history and an RSS feed that interested users and Threema Work administrators can subscribe to in order to receive system updates through an independent channel.” concludes the report. “We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS) “Business customers using Threema Work were informed via email on Wednesday morning about the unstable service conditions, and account managers provided information on the current situation in response to inquiries.” To avoid similar incidents, the Swiss company has implemented “specialized DDoS protection as an additional measure” to filter attack traffic upstream and reduce the load on its infrastructure. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)
Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. The incident began on August 16, 2026, at around 21:58 UTC, and is affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. According to Anthropic’s status page, the company first said it was investigating an issue preventing some users from authenticating to Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. A few minutes later, Anthropic reported a broader service disruption involving degraded performance on Claude.ai and platform.claude.com. For users, the outage can result in problems signing in, Claude failing to load, requests not completing, or other errors when using the affected services. Anthropic’s status page currently classifies Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as experiencing a major outage. Claude Console and the Claude API are currently listed as operational.
Multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted the Threema secure messaging service earlier this week, causing severe disruptions to communications. Organizations using Threema On-Prem did not experience any issues because they rely on their own infrastructure. In a post-mortem report on Friday, the end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service said that the attacks were difficult to defend against because the threat actor constantly changed patterns. Threema is a paid messaging application developed by the Swiss technology company of the same name, with a heavy focus on security and privacy. The service relies on its own server infrastructure in various locations in Switzerland and promises “no ads, no profiling, no hidden data analyses.” On Tuesday around 6 PM UTC, users started to report service interruptions. The company responded about an hour later, saying that based on the information available at the time, the cause was “a network outage on our colocation partner’s side.”
Attackers are buying expired domains to exploit their reputation, traffic and DNS history, using them for malware delivery, scams and C2 infrastructure. Every day, roughly 65,000 domain names that once belonged to someone else get re-registered by a new owner. Infoblox Threat Intel calls these dropcatch domains, and in the first half of 2026 they accounted for nearly 20% of all new domain registrations, meaning one in five “new” domains has a prior life. Some end up with legitimate investors or researchers. Others end up with attackers who have figured out that a domain with history is worth more than a blank slate. “These domains can be particularly interesting, even dangerous, because they inherit reputation and sometimes connections from their previous life. For example, a domain that was originally registered 10 years ago, later dropped, and then acquired by someone else may still carry signals associated with its long history.” reads the report published by Infoblox. “Researchers, security products, and reputation-based algorithms may view it more favorably than a genuinely brand-new registration. Threat actors know this and take advantage of it.” Among gTLDs, the average is 50,400 per day, with 15 TLDs accounting for about 92% of all dropcatch activity. .net and .xyz have the highest rates, with nearly 30% of new registrations previously registered, while .com reaches 24.5%. Determining who buys these domains and how they are used remains difficult due to WHOIS privacy, transfers, parking, and auctions. The inherited value isn’t just a better reputation score. Expired domains also come with residual web traffic from old backlinks, email still arriving for the previous owner, cached search results, and in some cases lingering DNS records that point to infrastructure no longer under the original owner’s control. One in every five new domains has all of that already baked in before the new registrant does anything. Infoblox tracked one threat actor it calls Sable Squirrel, which has spent nearly $7 million acquiring expired domains to build a criminal operation spanning illegal sports streaming, gambling promotion, and malware infrastructure. The actor controls more than 10,000 domains and runs streaming platforms under brands like Xoilac, Cakhia, and 90phut that direct Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, and Australian users toward betting sites, while a subset of those same streaming domains double as command-and-control servers for malware including Quasar RAT, AsyncRAT, DCRat, and Remcos RAT. Among the expired domains Sable Squirrel has acquired are healthymagination.com, originally a General Electric health initiative, and rezilion.com, a cybersecurity company whose assets were sold to GitLab in 2024. The actor bought the reputation of a defunct infosec firm and pointed it at malware infrastructure — which is either darkly ironic or exactly what you’d do if you understood how security tools evaluate domain age. “For threat actors specifically, the inherited reputation isn’t the only thing valuable about acquiring a dropped domain. They also come with a variety of lingering connections: email intended for the original domain holder (see watchTowr Labs’ The Perils of Expired Domains: We’re Reading Your Email), cached search results, inherited web traffic, and in some cases, a ready-made platform for code injection on already compromised sites.” continues the report. “Lingering DNS records can also create opportunities for threat actors. We previously discussed dangling CNAME attacks in our blog post, Who Knew Domain Hijacking Is So Easy?.” Once Sable Squirrel re-registers a domain, it moves fast: 24% go live the same day, 76% within seven days, 94% within two weeks. The whole point is to start capturing traffic before security systems have updated their assessments. Infoblox is also tracking three scavenger actors, Stuffy Squirrel, Shady Squirrel, and Swiping Squirrel, that operate differently: rather than buying domains wholesale for a planned operation, they acquire expired domains that were previously compromised by other attackers and simply inherit the existing infection traffic. Shady Squirrel, assessed to be Russian-speaking and active since at least July 2023, feeds that traffic to SocGholish and tech support scam networks. SocGholish reportedly regained access to thousands of compromised sites by teaming up with Shady Squirrel days after its own infrastructure was disrupted by law enforcement. The practical lesson for defenders is uncomfortable: domain age and reputation are inputs worth questioning, not trusting, because an old domain in new hands is only as trustworthy as whoever currently holds it. “This is just one story of how threat actors use dropcatch domains to further their schemes. We’ll cover many more in the next two parts of this research: Part 2, $7 Million in Expired Domains Fuel a Streaming Empire with a Malware Secret, where we examine Sable Squirrel, a threat actor that has spent millions of dollars acquiring dropped domains, and Part 3, Dropcatch Scavengers: Expired Malicious Domains Become Cash Cows, where we explore actors that scavenge expired malicious domains and inherit traffic from previously compromised websites.” concludes the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, Expired domains)
Attackers are buying expired domains to exploit their reputation, traffic and DNS history, using them for malware delivery, scams and C2 infrastructure. Every day, roughly 65,000 domain names that once belonged to someone else get re-registered by a new owner. Infoblox Threat Intel calls these dropcatch domains, and in the first half of 2026 they accounted for nearly 20% of all new domain registrations, meaning one in five “new” domains has a prior life. Some end up with legitimate investors or researchers. Others end up with attackers who have figured out that a domain with history is worth more than a blank slate. “These domains can be particularly interesting, even dangerous, because they inherit reputation and sometimes connections from their previous life. For example, a domain that was originally registered 10 years ago, later dropped, and then acquired by someone else may still carry signals associated with its long history.” reads the report published by Infoblox. “Researchers, security products, and reputation-based algorithms may view it more favorably than a genuinely brand-new registration. Threat actors know this and take advantage of it.” Among gTLDs, the average is 50,400 per day, with 15 TLDs accounting for about 92% of all dropcatch activity. .net and .xyz have the highest rates, with nearly 30% of new registrations previously registered, while .com reaches 24.5%. Determining who buys these domains and how they are used remains difficult due to WHOIS privacy, transfers, parking, and auctions. The inherited value isn’t just a better reputation score. Expired domains also come with residual web traffic from old backlinks, email still arriving for the previous owner, cached search results, and in some cases lingering DNS records that point to infrastructure no longer under the original owner’s control. One in every five new domains has all of that already baked in before the new registrant does anything. Infoblox tracked one threat actor it calls Sable Squirrel, which has spent nearly $7 million acquiring expired domains to build a criminal operation spanning illegal sports streaming, gambling promotion, and malware infrastructure. The actor controls more than 10,000 domains and runs streaming platforms under brands like Xoilac, Cakhia, and 90phut that direct Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, and Australian users toward betting sites, while a subset of those same streaming domains double as command-and-control servers for malware including Quasar RAT, AsyncRAT, DCRat, and Remcos RAT. Among the expired domains Sable Squirrel has acquired are healthymagination.com, originally a General Electric health initiative, and rezilion.com, a cybersecurity company whose assets were sold to GitLab in 2024. The actor bought the reputation of a defunct infosec firm and pointed it at malware infrastructure — which is either darkly ironic or exactly what you’d do if you understood how security tools evaluate domain age. “For threat actors specifically, the inherited reputation isn’t the only thing valuable about acquiring a dropped domain. They also come with a variety of lingering connections: email intended for the original domain holder (see watchTowr Labs’ The Perils of Expired Domains: We’re Reading Your Email), cached search results, inherited web traffic, and in some cases, a ready-made platform for code injection on already compromised sites.” continues the report. “Lingering DNS records can also create opportunities for threat actors. We previously discussed dangling CNAME attacks in our blog post, Who Knew Domain Hijacking Is So Easy?.” Once Sable Squirrel re-registers a domain, it moves fast: 24% go live the same day, 76% within seven days, 94% within two weeks. The whole point is to start capturing traffic before security systems have updated their assessments. Infoblox is also tracking three scavenger actors, Stuffy Squirrel, Shady Squirrel, and Swiping Squirrel, that operate differently: rather than buying domains wholesale for a planned operation, they acquire expired domains that were previously compromised by other attackers and simply inherit the existing infection traffic. Shady Squirrel, assessed to be Russian-speaking and active since at least July 2023, feeds that traffic to SocGholish and tech support scam networks. SocGholish reportedly regained access to thousands of compromised sites by teaming up with Shady Squirrel days after its own infrastructure was disrupted by law enforcement. The practical lesson for defenders is uncomfortable: domain age and reputation are inputs worth questioning, not trusting, because an old domain in new hands is only as trustworthy as whoever currently holds it. “This is just one story of how threat actors use dropcatch domains to further their schemes. We’ll cover many more in the next two parts of this research: Part 2, $7 Million in Expired Domains Fuel a Streaming Empire with a Malware Secret, where we examine Sable Squirrel, a threat actor that has spent millions of dollars acquiring dropped domains, and Part 3, Dropcatch Scavengers: Expired Malicious Domains Become Cash Cows, where we explore actors that scavenge expired malicious domains and inherit traffic from previously compromised websites.” concludes the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, Expired domains)
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