No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is globenewswire.com legit or a scam?
Established press release newswire with 18-year domain history, clean scans, and corporate ownership records.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as GlobeNewswire, a service for distributing corporate press releases to media and investors. The domain is over 18 years old with valid SSL and no malicious flags from our antivirus network or browser blocklists. Our research confirms it is a real company, formerly a Nasdaq subsidiary and now part of Equiniti, with active business registration in the United States. While independent review aggregator shows two complaints about the service distributing PR for crypto projects, independent reviews on TrustRadius and Reddit describe it as a standard legitimate newswire used by public companies. No clone indicators, malware, or phishing elements were detected.
Website Preview
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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 globenewswire.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age 6839 days (~18.7 years); official site globenewswire.com for GlobeNewswire press release distribution
- Operated by Notified (parent Equiniti as of 2025 acquisition); HQ Los Angeles, CA; former Nasdaq subsidiary
- Distributes corporate press releases, financial disclosures to media/investors in 158 countries; used by public companies
- Wikipedia page confirms global operations in North America, Europe, Asia as legitimate newswire service
- Trustpilot: 2.0/5 from 12 reviews (some accuse promoting scam/crypto PRs); BBB profile exists (not accredited, A+ rating)
- Reddit discussions treat it as standard legitimate newswire comparable to Business Wire/Cision
- Trustpilotopen
"Global Newswire are the Scam Promoters of Crypto Currency Scammer like- Winning Exchange, Diamond Ridge Financial Academy... GLOBAL NEWSWIRE CANT BE TRUSTED, THEY ARE SCAMMERS OR SCAM PROMOTERS"
- Trustpilotopen
"I've invested in cloud mining, this website says is good !!!! I'VE lost THOUSANDS of £. HEXMINER SCAM... GLOBENEWSWIRE. is part of the problem. Probably runs the SCAM crypto mining sites."
- TrustRadiusopen
"GlobeNewswire distributes press releases and multimedia content on behalf of thousands of customers every year, including growing businesses, agencies, non-profits, and many of the world’s largest public companies."
- Redditopen
"Globe News Wire is a legit program for news distribution. Many companies use web programs like this to 'market' their press releases."
Subsidiary of Notified (acquired by Equiniti in May 2025); HQ in Los Angeles, CA; previously Nasdaq subsidiary until 2018
Our research found two independent review aggregator complaints accusing GlobeNewswire of promoting press releases for fraudulent crypto projects. Positive reviews on TrustRadius and Reddit describe it as a standard legitimate newswire service comparable to Business Wire. Business registration records confirm active U.S. operations as a subsidiary of Equiniti.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://globenewswire.com/
- 2301http://www.globenewswire.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.globenewswire.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).
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 globenewswire.com and not a lookalike like g-lobenewswire.com.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.
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 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 globenewswire.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- globenewswire.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 78/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. globenewswire.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 217 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- globenewswire.com is 18.7 years old, registered on 9/8/2007 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. 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 globenewswire.com as clean.
- No. globenewswire.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- globenewswire.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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