Security Review

Is ascon-business-akademie.de legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 86/100

Legitimate German IT business-training academy with valid registration, clean security profile, and no fraud indicators.

ascon-business-akademie.deScanned 2h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 95·MT 82
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/97
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 92% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
Our scan found zero malware detections across 97 antivirus engines, a valid SSL certificate, and a clean hosting IP with no abuse history. The domain operator is registered in the Nürnberg commercial register as ASCON Business-Akademie GmbH & Co. KG (HRA 19455), active since February 2022, with a physical address and published contact details. The site content matches a professional B2B training platform offering seminars in IT leadership, business management, and benchmarking — not a consumer-facing shop or phishing vector. Our research found zero scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions across consumer-review sites and complaint forums. The business is part of a longer-established ASCON Unternehmensgruppe focused on IT consulting and training for over 25 years. No clone indicators or credential-harvest patterns were detected.
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Page Content

The site presents as a professional B2B training academy for IT sector leadership and business management. Navigation includes seminar offerings (Elite Class, benchmarking, workshops), a login area for registered participants, and career/contact sections. The page uses WooCommerce for course management. Body text emphasizes industry-specific content and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange for IT professionals.

Infrastructure

Hosting IP 92.205.212.237 has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. SSL certificate is valid (Starfield Technologies issuer, 68 days to expiry). The domain uses HTTP (not HTTPS in the URL provided), but the certificate is in place. No redirects to suspicious domains detected; external loads include legitimate social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Microsoft Teams) and a plugin vendor (devowl.io).

Domain History

WHOIS data is unavailable, but business registration confirms the operator is ASCON Business-Akademie GmbH & Co. KG, registered in Nürnberg (HRA 19455) on 17 February 2022. The company maintains an active status with no dissolution records. The domain appears to redirect to or share content with ascon-akademie.de, the official site of the same registered entity.

Web Reputation

Zero detections from our antivirus network and browser blocklists. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across consumer-review aggregators, Reddit, or German complaint forums. The business is part of the ASCON Unternehmensgruppe, an established IT consulting and training group with a 25+ year history. Impressum lists a physical address (Lina-Ammon-Straße 19, 90471 Nürnberg), phone number, and business email, consistent with German legal requirements for B2B service providers.

Risk Factors
3
  • Contact email (info@as-con.de) does not use the site's own domain — typical for multi-brand corporate groups but less common for single-brand sites.
  • No independent customer reviews or ratings found in public sources — expected for a B2B-only training provider with limited consumer visibility.
  • SSL certificate expires in 68 days; renewal should be monitored to ensure continuity.
Positive Signals
5
  • Registered German business entity (HRA 19455, Nürnberg) with active status since February 2022.
  • Physical address, phone number, and business email published in legal notice (Impressum).
  • Part of established ASCON Unternehmensgruppe with 25+ years in IT consulting and training.
  • Zero malware detections across 97 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklists.
  • Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe to visit. If you are an IT business professional interested in leadership training, benchmarking, or industry seminars, you can contact the academy directly using the published phone number or email to verify course offerings and pricing.
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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ascon-business-akademie.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Germany
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain ascon-business-akademie.de appears to redirect to or share content with ascon-akademie.de, the official site of ASCON Business-Akademie GmbH & Co. KG.
  • Company registered in Nürnberg commercial register (HRA 19455) on 17 Feb 2022; active status, no dissolution records found.
  • Offers B2B seminars, leadership training, IT business management and related events exclusively to businesses (no consumer contracts).
  • No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews or mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit or German complaint forums located.
  • Part of longer-established ASCON Unternehmensgruppe focused on IT/tech sector consulting, M&A and training (LinkedIn, company pages).
  • Impressum lists physical address, phone (0911 14898680), email info@as-con.de; no consumer sales per legal notice.
  • No independent customer reviews or ratings found in searches.
Business registration
Status: active · Germany

Registered as ASCON Business-Akademie GmbH & Co. KG, HRA 19455 Nürnberg since February 17, 2022. Verwaltungs-GmbH HRB 40092. Address: Lina-Ammon-Straße 19, 90471 Nürnberg. Part of ASCON Unternehmensgruppe (IT/tech consulting & training >25 years).

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for ascon-business-akademie.de and found zero scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions. The domain operator is confirmed as ASCON Business-Akademie GmbH & Co. KG, a registered German business entity (HRA 19455, Nürnberg) active since February 2022. The company is part of the ASCON Unternehmensgruppe, an established IT consulting and training group with over 25 years of industry presence. No evidence of cloning, credential harvesting, or fraudulent activity was found.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 97 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 97 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious66Harmless97Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers14 89 86 80
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles4
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
  • Phone number listed (14 89 86 80).
  • Postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 8 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerStarfield Technologies, Inc. · Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2
ExpiresAug 17, 2026 (68d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingHost Europe GmbH
Server locationFR
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://ascon-business-akademie.de/
  • 2200https://ascon-business-akademie.de/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPHost Europe GmbH
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on ascon-business-akademie.de and not a lookalike like a-scon-business-akademie.de.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
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VirusTotal
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AbuseIPDB
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Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ascon-business-akademie.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • ascon-business-akademie.de passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. ascon-business-akademie.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Starfield Technologies, Inc. · Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2, expiring in 68 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • No. All 97 antivirus engines in our malware network report ascon-business-akademie.de as clean.
  • No. ascon-business-akademie.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • ascon-business-akademie.de resolves to an IP operated by Host Europe GmbH in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around ascon-business-akademie.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·ascon-business-akademie.de
SAFE

ASCON Business-Akademie is a legitimate German training provider registered since 2022, offering B2B seminars and leadership courses for IT professionals. The domain is clean across all security scans, backed by active business registration, and shows no scam reports or complaints.

This site is safe to visit. If you are an IT business professional interested in leadership training, benchmarking, or industry seminars, you can contact the academy directly using the published phone number or email to verify course offerings and pricing.

AV engines
97
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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