SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is lastampa.it legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official website of the historic Italian newspaper La Stampa with clean security scans and no scam indicators.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
lastampa.itScanned Jul 15, 2026
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 100·MT 92
Screenshot of lastampa.itSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
View density

Analysis Summary

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

Website Preview

Screenshot of lastampa.it
SCAN-TIME CAPTURE
lastampa.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 displays a standard, legitimate cookie consent banner on the official La Stampa website.

Visual risk0/100

What our vision model saw

2 signals

Standard cookie consent modal from a major Italian news publication

Legitimate branding and navigation elements for La Stampa

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The page loads the legitimate La Stampa news site with standard navigation, sections, and branding. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The domain belongs to GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, a major Italian publishing company with active business registration. Evidence shows 75 complaints focused on mobile app performance and advertising volume, not payment fraud or data theft. Two Trustpilot reviews mention subscription issues but do not allege scams. The combination of established ownership, clean technical signals, and complaints limited to service quality supports a safe classification.
Risk Factors
2
  • No contact email, phone, or postal address listed on the homepage itself.
  • Seventy-five user complaints about subscription management and mobile site performance.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections from our antivirus network across 92 engines.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and clean reputation.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Amazon.
  • Business registration confirms ownership by established Italian publisher GEDI Gruppo Editoriale.
  • Global traffic ranking places the domain in the top tier of news sites.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page displays the standard La Stampa news homepage with sections for Cronaca, Politica, Economia, Sport, and local editions. A cookie consent banner appears as expected for a major European news outlet. No login forms, countdown timers, or suspicious scripts were detected.

Infrastructure

The site serves from IP 3.168.122.75 with an abuse score of 0/100 and zero abuse reports. SSL certificate is valid, issued by Amazon, with 75 days remaining. One redirect hop occurs within the same domain family. External resources load from lastampastatic.it, repstatic.it, and kataweb.it domains, consistent with the GEDI publishing group.

Domain History

Business registration confirms ownership by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, an active Italian media company. The domain ranks among top global sites and carries no recent registration flags. WHOIS data was unavailable in this scan.

Web Reputation

Our research found no scam reports linking the domain to fraud. Two Trustpilot reviews mention subscription billing and mobile site issues. Seventy-five complaints reference service quality rather than financial loss or data theft. Independent media monitors rate La Stampa as a high-factual-reporting outlet.

What this means for you

The site is the authentic online presence of a 150-year-old newspaper. No payment or credential risks are present. Readers should still use standard caution with any subscription sign-up and review terms before committing to paid access.

AI Recommendation
The site is safe to visit. Use normal caution if signing up for a paid subscription and review the terms before entering payment 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 lastampa.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
2 scam reports · 75 complaints
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • La Stampa is a historic, legitimate Italian daily newspaper founded in 1867.
  • The website is owned and operated by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale.
  • It is a well-known media outlet with a high factual reporting rating from independent media monitors.
  • User complaints on platforms like Trustpilot primarily concern subscription management, technical issues with the mobile site/app, and excessive advertising.
  • The domain is not a scam site; it is a mainstream news publication.
  • Some search results mentioning 'scam' in relation to 'lastampa.it' refer to news articles published by the newspaper reporting on criminal scams, rather than the site itself being a scam.
Scam reports (2)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Trustpilot

    "Sono passato all'abbonamento annuale di 100 euro dopo la prova di 9 euro, ma il bombardamento di contenuti pubblicitari rende praticamente non fruibile i contenuti."

  • Trustpilot

    "Ho fatto contratto online fa pietà com'è possibile nel 2025 usare un sistema così di bassa qualità. Sempre bloccato ingestibile sul cellulare"

Business registration
Status: active · Italy

Owned by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, a major Italian publishing group.

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

Our research found two an independent review aggregator reviews mentioning subscription management and mobile site issues. Seventy-five complaints reference service quality rather than financial loss or data theft. No scam reports link the domain itself to fraud. Search results mentioning 'scam' in connection with lastampa.it refer to news articles published by the newspaper about criminal scams, not the site being fraudulent. Business registration confirms ownership by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, a major Italian publishing group.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious60Harmless92Engines
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 addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01
ExpiresSep 28, 2026 (75d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingAmazon.com, Inc.
Server locationUS
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

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

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPAmazon.com, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 lastampa.it and not a lookalike like l-astampa.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·lastampa.it
SAFE

La Stampa is a long-established Italian daily newspaper. The domain shows clean scans, valid SSL, and no malicious indicators. User complaints relate only to subscription service quality, not fraud.

The site is safe to visit. Use normal caution if signing up for a paid subscription and review the terms before entering payment 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 lastampa.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.
  • lastampa.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 lastampa.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 lastampa.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 lastampa.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 — lastampa.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 — lastampa.it presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, valid for another 75 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".
  • lastampa.it resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). 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 — lastampa.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 15, 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 lastampa.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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