gizmodo.com

The strongest scan signals are favorable at the time of this scan: 0 out of 91 security engines flagged the domain, major threat-database checks were reported clean, and the domain has a long operating history of roughly 24 years. The homepage screenshot also shows a normal editorial news layout rather than common phishing, malware-delivery, or scam-store patterns. These factors generally support the view that the site appears legitimate and established.

One scanner did report multiple article URLs and affiliate redirect links as suspicious or malicious, but the threat names shown are generic heuristic labels rather than a specific malware family, and they are not corroborated by the broader engine consensus or by blacklist results. On large media sites, affiliate-tracking and redirect links can sometimes trigger low-confidence pattern matches. Based on available data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.