No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is codeby.academy legit or a scam?
Established Russian cybersecurity education platform with clean scans, verified business registration, and positive reviews.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as Codeby Academy, an online school offering cybersecurity and pentesting courses in Russian. No antivirus engines or browser blocklists flagged the page, the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports, and the domain is over four years old. Our research confirmed an active Russian business registration for the academy along with two positive reviews on independent education review sites. Five complaints appear in the data but are typical course feedback rather than scam indicators. The combination of long domain history, clean technical signals, and real-world business presence supports a safe verdict.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for codeby.academy, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Russian online school offering cybersecurity (информационной безопасности) courses since at least 2016; claims 8500+ graduates
- - Part of Codeby ecosystem including codeby.school, codeby.net forum, Telegram @codeby_sec, VK vk.com/codeby, Instagram @codeby.academy
- - Physical address and phone in Moscow: +7 (499) 444-17-50; offers state diploma courses
- - Positive aggregate ratings e.g. 4.62/5 from 85 reviews on tutortop.ru; mixed individual course feedback on kurshub.ru and codeby.net
- - Domain codeby.academy matches official site title and content promoting IB training; no scam family detections or brand clones found
- - Related scamadviser check on codeby.school notes registrar issues but concludes likely legit
- - No Reddit or major English-language scam/complaint threads specific to codeby.academy (results mostly about unrelated Codecademy)
Автономная некоммерческая организация дополнительного профессионального образования «Академия цифровой защиты», 119049, г. Москва, ул Большая Якиманка, д. 35, стр. 1
No scam reports were found for codeby.academy. Two positive reviews appear on Russian education review sites. Five complaints were noted, consistent with typical mixed course feedback rather than fraud. An active Russian business registration was confirmed for the academy.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (04.06.2026).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://codeby.academy/
- 2200https://codeby.academy/
Server Reputation
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 codeby.academy and not a lookalike like c-odeby.academy.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on codeby.academy. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- codeby.academy passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. codeby.academy presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- codeby.academy is 4.6 years old, registered on 10/19/2021 through Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report codeby.academy as clean.
- No. codeby.academy is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- codeby.academy resolves to an IP operated by Selectel Network in RU (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.
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