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Category: Information Technology, News

Scanned: Jun 20, 2026, 02:04 AM UTC · First seen: Jun 20, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of theregister.com Captured Jun 20, 2026
https://theregister.com
Screenshot of theregister.com
30 years
Very Popular - #3,018 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
AWS Global Accelerator (GLOBAL)
Montreal, Canada
Unknown
Unknown
15.197.188.249
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Registered July 1, 1996
Expires June 30, 2026
Name Servers gerald.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting AWS Global Accelerator (GLOBAL)
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
34 files scanned
No threats
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Low Risk
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Medium Risk
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www.theregister.com/Profile/cookies 148.6 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/09/miasma-supply-chain-attack-toolkit-goes-public-on-github/5253074 158.8 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.theregister.com.http-redirect 90 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-KVXB44 266 B No threats
www.theregister.com/cso 379.1 KB No threats
www.theregister.com/archive 662.6 KB No threats
www.theregister.com/cxo 162 B No threats
www.theregister.com/cyber_crime 408.6 KB No threats
www.theregister.com/# 2.0 MB No threats
www.theregister.com/about_us 129.1 KB No threats
intelligence.theregister.com/webcast.js 41.7 KB No threats
www.theregister.com/bootnotes/# 162 B No threats
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External Links & Domains
3218
External Links
5 Flagged
1
Iframes
Clean
377
Referenced Domains
7 Flagged
12
Flagged Resources
Detected
analights.comFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
claude.mdFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
cubed.aiFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
safedep.ioFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
virtualminds.deFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.conversantmedia.euFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.spotad.coFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://cubed.ai/privacy-policy/gdpr/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://www.spotad.co/privacy-policy/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://analights.com/docs/analights-consent-to-the-processing-of-personal-data-en.pdfFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://safedep.io/inside-the-miasma-supply-chain-attack-toolkit/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://www.conversantmedia.eu/legal/privacy-policyFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://cubed.ai/privacy-policy/gdpr/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://www.spotad.co/privacy-policy/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://analights.com/docs/analights-consent-to-the-processing-of-personal-data-en.pdfFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://safedep.io/inside-the-miasma-supply-chain-attack-toolkit/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://www.conversantmedia.eu/legal/privacy-policyFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://adloox.com/disclaimerNot flagged
http://advolution.de/privacy.phpNot flagged
http://avocet.io/privacy-portalNot flagged
http://bombora.com/privacyNot flagged
http://corp.aarki.com/privacyNot flagged
http://exponential.com/privacy/Not flagged
http://green.erne.co/assets/PolicyCT.pdfNot flagged
http://mktsci.com/privacy_policy.htmNot flagged
http://mobpro.com/privacy.htmlNot flagged
http://optomaton.com/privacy.htmlNot flagged
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Showing first 500 of 3218 entries.
analights.comFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
claude.mdFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
cubed.aiFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
safedep.ioFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
virtualminds.deFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.conversantmedia.euFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
www.spotad.coFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
abcnews.go.comNot flagged
abliteration.aiNot flagged
account.theregister.comNot flagged
aclanthology.orgNot flagged
adara.comNot flagged
adledge.comNot flagged
adloox.comNot flagged
admetrics.ioNot flagged
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<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-KVXB44"height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
theregister.com Overview

Description of theregister.com

theregister.com appears to be the website for The Register, a long-running technology news and analysis publication focused on enterprise IT, cybersecurity, software, cloud computing, open source, and related industry topics. The page title and visible homepage content indicate an editorial news site aimed at technology professionals and decision-makers rather than a transactional or download-focused service.

Based on the domain age, strong traffic ranking, and the categories assigned by multiple web-classification providers, the site appears to be an established media property in the technology and news space. The homepage layout shown in the screenshot features article headlines, navigation for technology topics, and advertising placements, which is consistent with a mainstream online publication operated as a digital news outlet.

Safety Assessment for theregister.com

The scan results are broadly reassuring. At the time of this scan, 0 out of 91 security engines flagged the domain, and the major threat-database checks provided in the scan data did not report the site as malicious or phishing-related. The domain is also very old, has a strong traffic rank, and the visible content matches a legitimate technology news publication, all of which reduce the likelihood of opportunistic abuse.

One scanner did label the site as suspicious and marked a small number of pages, links, and referenced domains with a generic heuristic detection. However, those findings appear to be low-confidence pattern matches rather than confirmed malware, especially because they were not corroborated by the broader engine consensus or by blacklist databases. The flagged items are largely privacy-policy or article-related links, which can sometimes trigger generic heuristics without indicating active harm.

Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan, aside from isolated low-confidence heuristic signals that were not supported by other scanners.

Technical Description

The domain is approximately 29 years old and is registered through a corporate registrar, which is consistent with an established organization. It uses Cloudflare nameservers and is hosted behind AWS Global Accelerator, with the observed server IP geolocating to Canada. The site presents a valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate that was valid at the time of scanning, indicating that HTTPS was configured.

DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but does mean DNS responses do not benefit from that additional integrity layer. The scan did not report SSL certificate problems, malware blacklist hits, or DNS-based blocklist issues. The web server software and exact TLS protocol details were not identified in the provided data.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://theregister.com/
200 https://www.theregister.com/
Website Insights
#3,018
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Information Technology, News
Rank History (30 days)
May 11 Jun 19
7 cookies detected
Essential5
Analytics2
Advertising0
Social0
7 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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