Is dsb.ie safe?

http://dsb.ie/

SafeStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Legitimate Irish accountancy firm site with verified professional registration

dsb.ie is the online presence of WDFS (Auditors & Accountants) Limited, a Chartered Accountants Ireland-registered firm offering outsourcing, advisory, tax and audit services. The site displays its own-domain email, phone number and physical addresses, uses a standard contact form, and carries no security warnings.

The site can be treated as a legitimate professional-services website; visitors may use the published contact details to reach the firm directly.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

dsb.ie is the online presence of WDFS (Auditors & Accountants) Limited, a Chartered Accountants Ireland-registered firm offering outsourcing, advisory, tax and audit services. The site displays its own-domain email, phone number and physical addresses, uses a standard contact form, and carries no security warnings.

Operator identity and professional standing

The domain is operated by WDFS (Auditors & Accountants) Limited, an Irish accountancy practice with offices in Limerick and Cork.

The firm appears on the official Chartered Accountants Ireland directory, confirming its professional registration.

Contact details and technical posture

The site publishes a contact email on its own domain (info@dsb.ie), a listed phone number (061 314746) and a visible postal address.

The browser threat feed reports no threat warnings and the TLS certificate is valid.

Why the score is 92

The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 94

No detections

Saved analysis from February 22, 2026 - stale

No detections across 63 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 31 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
94
All 94 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
  • AlphaSOC - Unrated
  • Antiy-AVL - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
  • AutoShun - Unrated
  • benkow.cc - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
  • BitDefender - Clean
  • Bkav - Unrated
  • BlockList - Clean
  • Blueliv - Clean
  • Certego - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - Unrated
  • Chong Lua Dao - Clean
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • Cluster25 - Unrated
  • CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - Unrated
  • Cyan - Unrated
  • Cyble - Clean
  • CyRadar - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - Clean
  • DNS8 - Clean
  • Dr.Web - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - Clean
  • Emsisoft - Clean
  • Ermes - Unrated
  • ESET - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
  • Fortinet - Clean
  • Fortra - Unrated
  • G-Data - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
  • Google Safe Browsing - Clean
  • GreenSnow - Clean
  • GreyNoise - Unrated
  • Gridinsoft - Unrated
  • Heimdal Security - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
  • IPsum - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - Clean
  • Kaspersky - Clean
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • malwares.com URL checker - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - Unrated
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • PhishFort - Unrated
  • Phishing Database - Clean
  • Phishtank - Clean
  • PREBYTES - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - Unrated
  • Quick Heal - Clean
  • Quttera - Clean
  • Rising - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - Unrated
  • Sangfor - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - Unrated
  • Scantitan - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - Clean
  • Seclookup - Clean
  • securolytics - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - Unrated
  • SOCRadar - Unrated
  • Sophos - Clean
  • Spam404 - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
  • ThreatHive - Clean
  • Trustwave - Clean
  • URLhaus - Clean
  • URLQuery - Unrated
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • VIPRE - Unrated
  • ViriBack - Clean
  • VX Vault - Clean
  • Webroot - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
dsb.ie
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

DSB OUTSOURCING | ADVISORY | TAX | AUDIT

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    DSB OUTSOURCING | ADVISORY | TAX | AUDIT

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    DSB – OUTSOURCED BACK OFFICE

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 63 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Listed on Chartered Accountants Ireland directory
  2. 02Contact email uses the site's own domain
  3. 03Phone number and postal address displayed

Web research findings

Independent findings for dsb.ie, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
1 positive
Positive reviews (1)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • Chartered Accountants Irelandopen

    "WDFS (Auditors & Accountants) Limited"

Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domaindsb.ie
  2. Redirects towww.dsb.ie
  3. Hosted byBlacknight Internet Solutions Limited
  4. Referencesgmpg.org · fonts.googleapis.com

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@dsb.ie, mary@dsb.ie
Phone numbers061 314746
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@dsb.ie).
  • Phone number listed (061 314746).
  • Postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerSectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36
ExpiresOct 24, 2026 (12d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingBlacknight Internet Solutions Limited
Server locationIE
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://dsb.ie/
  • 2206https://www.dsb.ie/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPBlacknight Internet Solutions Limited
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

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

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 94 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingNo saved finding
Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Feb 22, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Independent research
Result1 independent finding was saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

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.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on dsb.ie and not a lookalike like d-sb.ie or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. 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.

  3. Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is dsb.ie legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on dsb.ie, so it appears legitimate. All 63 antivirus engines that rated it reported it clean in the saved analysis from February 22, 2026, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is dsb.ie safe to use?
dsb.ie has a Safety Score of 92/100 (Safe). The saved checks and analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like dsb.ie still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from dsb.ie), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from dsb.ie is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has dsb.ie been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 63 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it reported dsb.ie as clean in the saved analysis from February 22, 2026. 31 other engines had no rating for it. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is dsb.ie on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — dsb.ie is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
Does dsb.ie have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — dsb.ie presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid for another 12 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is dsb.ie hosted?
dsb.ie resolves to an IP operated by Blacknight Internet Solutions Limited in IE (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the dsb.ie report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 12, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about dsb.ie has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
92/100
Safe

Legitimate Irish accountancy firm site with verified professional registration

Saved capturedsb.ieCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

dsb.ie is the online presence of WDFS (Auditors & Accountants) Limited, a Chartered Accountants Ireland-registered firm offering outsourcing, advisory, tax and audit services. The site displays its own-domain email, phone number and physical addresses, uses a standard contact form, and carries no security warnings.

Recommended actionThe site can be treated as a legitimate professional-services website; visitors may use the published contact details to reach the firm directly.
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Missing checks are never treated as a clean result.

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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.