apnews.com

Scan results are mixed, but the broader context leans toward a legitimate high-profile news website. At the time of this scan, 0 out of 91 security engines detected malicious activity, and the domain was not listed by the checked blacklist databases. The domain is also very old, highly ranked in web traffic, and visually consistent with a mainstream news publisher, which reduces the likelihood that it is a newly created abusive site.

One malware scan did mark 23 out of 27 scanned URLs as malicious, but the flagged items appear to be ordinary article and site-navigation pages rather than clearly malicious payloads. When a single scanner produces broad detections across normal content pages while other security engines and blacklist sources remain clean, that pattern may indicate false positives, aggressive heuristics, or content-analysis issues rather than confirmed compromise. The external links and referenced domains reviewed in the scan were also not flagged.

Based on available data, no threats were detected by the broader set of security engines at the time of this scan, though the isolated malware-scan findings suggest some caution and continued monitoring may be appropriate.