SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is gazzetta.it legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official La Gazzetta dello Sport sports news site with clean security scans and long-established Italian media ownership.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
gazzetta.itScanned 2h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 100·MT 92
Screenshot of gazzetta.itSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of gazzetta.it
LIVE RENDER
gazzetta.it

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

0
/ 100
No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

The screenshot shows a standard, legitimate privacy consent and subscription modal for the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Visual risk0/100

What our vision model saw

4 signals

Standard GDPR-compliant cookie and privacy consent modal in Italian

Legitimate branding for 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' visible in text and background

Clear options for user preference management and subscription access

Professional layout consistent with major European news media outlets

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The page is the legitimate digital platform for La Gazzetta dello Sport, a newspaper founded in 1896 and owned by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., a publicly listed Italian publishing company. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries a zero abuse score. The domain ranks among the global top-100k sites and loads the expected professional news layout with proper branding and navigation. Web research confirms the site's identity through Wikipedia and the publisher's own corporate pages, with no scam reports located. The only notable signal is a low Trustpilot score tied to subscription service complaints rather than fraud. These factors together indicate a long-standing, legitimate media property rather than any malicious operation.
Risk Factors
2
  • No phone number or contact email listed on the homepage itself.
  • an independent review aggregator reviews show customer-service complaints about digital subscriptions.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt.
  • Hosting IP carries zero abuse reports.
  • Owned by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., a publicly listed Italian company.
  • Global top-100k traffic ranking with millions of daily users.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page displays the standard homepage of La Gazzetta dello Sport with live sports results, navigation for football, motorsport, tennis, cycling and other categories. The title and meta description match the official publication exactly. A GDPR-compliant cookie consent modal appears, and the layout includes subscription options and account management links typical of a major European news outlet. No login forms, countdown timers, or suspicious data collection prompts are present.

Infrastructure

The site serves over HTTPS with a valid Let's Encrypt certificate. The hosting IP 34.34.105.97 shows zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. External resources load from legitimate ad and analytics domains including Google services and DoubleClick, consistent with a high-traffic news publication. One redirect hop occurs with no cross-domain anomalies or homoglyph usage.

Domain History

WHOIS data was unavailable in this scan, but the domain carries a global top-100k traffic ranking and is explicitly identified in the evidence package as the long-standing official platform for the newspaper founded in 1896. Business registration records confirm ownership by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., an active company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange.

Web Reputation

Zero scam reports were found. Two positive references appear in the evidence package: one from the publisher's corporate site describing it as Italy's most-read sports daily, and a Wikipedia entry confirming its 1896 founding and editorial reputation. The evidence package notes 168 complaints, primarily subscription-service issues rather than fraud. Independent review aggregators were not available for this domain.

What this means for you

This is a legitimate, long-established Italian sports news website. Readers can safely browse articles and results. Anyone considering a paid subscription should review the terms directly on the official site and use standard payment protections.

AI Recommendation
Browse freely for sports news and results. Verify the URL before entering any subscription or login details.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Business registration
Active · Italy
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
168 complaints · 2 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Official website of La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian sports newspaper founded in 1896.
  • Owned and operated by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., headquartered in Milan, Italy.
  • Maintains a high trust rating (80/100) on automated security scanners like ProbeProof.
  • Trustpilot score is low (1.3/5), but reviews primarily focus on customer service issues related to digital subscriptions and the online store rather than fraudulent activity.
  • The domain is a primary source for Italian sports news with millions of daily unique users.
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • cairorcsmedia.itopen

    "The most famous and most read Italian sports website, and a point of reference for all sports people and fans. Gazzetta.it offers authoritative all round sports coverage."

  • Wikipediaopen

    "Founded in 1896, it is the most widely read daily newspaper of any type in Italy (in 2018). ... The paper has a good record for campaigning journalism."

Business registration
Status: active · Italy

Owned by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., a major multimedia publishing group listed on the Italian Stock Exchange (BIT: RCS).

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

Our research found no scam reports for gazzetta.it. Two positive mentions appear: one from the publisher's corporate site describing it as Italy's most-read sports daily, and a Wikipedia entry confirming its 1896 founding and editorial standing. The evidence package notes 168 complaints focused on subscription service issues rather than fraudulent activity. Business registration records show active ownership by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., listed on the Italian Stock Exchange.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
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.

Reputation Sources

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

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

Technical Details

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.

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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • Postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR2
ExpiresSep 4, 2026 (52d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingGoogle LLC
Server locationNL
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://gazzetta.it/
  • 2200https://www.gazzetta.it/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPGoogle LLC
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.

What to do

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 gazzetta.it and not a lookalike like g-azzetta.it.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

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

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·gazzetta.it
SAFE

This is the official website of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's leading sports newspaper. The domain shows clean scans across all engines, valid SSL, and established ownership by RCS MediaGroup. No payment details or personal information should be entered on any site without verifying the URL first.

Browse freely for sports news and results. Verify the URL before entering any subscription or login details.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, 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 gazzetta.it, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • gazzetta.it passed our automated checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from gazzetta.it), 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 gazzetta.it is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report gazzetta.it as clean. 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.
  • No — gazzetta.it 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.
  • Yes — gazzetta.it presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, valid for another 52 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".
  • gazzetta.it resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in NL (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.
  • Yes — gazzetta.it ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 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 gazzetta.it has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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