pudgypanguin[.]co

The domain pudgypanguin.co was registered on March 12, 2026 through DYNADOT LLC and is currently taken offline. Google Safe Browsing classifies the site as a social engineering threat, and the domain is listed on three public blocklists. Security vendors on VirusTotal have flagged the domain in 12 of 94 scans, indicating a moderate level of detection across the ecosystem. The site resolves to the IPv4 address 91.92.240.186, which belongs to AS202412 Omegatech LTD based in Germany. The hosting infrastructure runs Caddy and supports HTTP/3, and the HTTP response returns status code 200 without an SSL/TLS certificate.

The page title reported by the crawler is “Pudgy Penguins — Creative Software,” which does not match the advertised brand, yet the intelligence indicates the domain is used to impersonate Curve. The registrar and nameservers (ns1.dyna-ns.net, ns2.dyna-ns.net) are typical of domains hosted on Dynadot’s platform. Trust scoring from Gridinsoft assigns a zero out of one hundred rating, and the domain is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. The combination of a brand‑impersonation label, social‑engineering safe‑browsing flag, and low trust score suggests the domain was designed to lure Curve users, possibly to harvest credentials or redirect traffic.

Defenders should add pudgypanguin.co to network and endpoint blocklists, enforce TLS inspection to detect the lack of encryption, and monitor DNS queries for the associated IP and nameservers. Additional threat‑intel feeds should be queried for any emerging indicators of compromise linked to the IP range or Caddy‑based deployments. Continuous re‑scanning on VirusTotal is advised to capture any changes in vendor detections. Until the domain is confirmed clean, it should be treated as high‑risk and excluded from user access.