safelychange[.]exchange

The domain safelychange.exchange was registered on February 21 2026 through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited. DNS resolution points to IP 188.114.96.3, which is hosted in the United States and belongs to AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. The domain uses Cloudflare authoritative nameservers samara.ns.cloudflare.com and milan.ns.cloudflare.com, and the site serves traffic over HTTPS with a certificate issued by SSL Corporation under the Cloudflare TLS Issuing ECC CA 3 chain. An HTTP request returns status 200 and the page title reads “Buy and Exchange Monero (XMR) Anonymously — No KYC or Registration”, indicating a purported cryptocurrency exchange that claims to operate without user verification. Classification from the supplied intelligence labels the activity as a “Fake Exchange” targeting Monero (XMR) users. Threat intelligence feeds show the domain appears on a single security blocklist and has been cited in one AlienVault OTX pulse.

PhishDestroy currently blocks the domain, yet the site remains active as of the report date. VirusTotal analysis reports that six of ninety‑three scanning engines flag the domain, reinforcing the malicious assessment. Additional automated assessments assign a Gridinsoft trust score of 0 out of 100, indicating an extremely low reputation. Observed infrastructure signals—Cloudflare hosting, use of HTTP/3, and a low‑trust SSL certificate—are consistent with typical abuse infrastructure that leverages reputable CDN services to hide the true backend location. The combination of a freshly created domain, a high‑profile cryptocurrency lure, and multiple detection points suggests a purposeful campaign aimed at harvesting credentials or funds from unsuspecting users.

Uncertainty remains regarding the exact backend services, monetary loss figures, and whether the site collects user‑submitted data. No further details about payload delivery or credential capture mechanisms have been disclosed.