Our automated security review found no threat indicators on mk.ru. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is mk.ru safe to use?

mk.ru passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does mk.ru have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. mk.ru presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has mk.ru been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report mk.ru as clean.

Is mk.ru on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. mk.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is mk.ru hosted?

mk.ru resolves to an IP operated by Svyaz VSD LLC 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.

Is mk.ru a well-known website?

Yes. mk.ru sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.

How often is the mk.ru report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around mk.ru have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is mk.ru legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 95/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Official site of the 1919-founded Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets with clean technical signals and active business registration.

Why we trust it

Zero antivirus engines flagged the domain as malicious.Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and clean reputation.Publishing company registered in Russia since 1993 with active status.

mk.ruScanned 1h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Score breakdown

Heuristics 100·MT 92

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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

Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

mk.ru

1Professional news layout with consistent branding for MKRU (Moskovskij Komsomolets)

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

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.

/ 100

Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered Russian news portal with professional design, standard legal disclosures, and no visible scam indicators.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

6 signals

Professional news layout with consistent branding for MKRU (Moskovskij Komsomolets)

Functional navigation bar with categories like Politics, Economy, and Sports

Standard cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page

Presence of real-time data including currency exchange rates and weather

Social media integration with official Russian platform icons (VK, OK, Telegram)

Prominent advertising for the publication's official Dzen channel

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

Analysis

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

The page loads as a fully functional Russian news portal with standard navigation, real-time currency data, and professional layout matching the known brand. Zero engines flagged the site, the hosting IP carries no abuse reports, and SSL remains valid. Business records confirm the publishing company has operated since 1993 with active registration in Moscow. Web research found no scam reports or complaints tied to mk.ru. The combination of long-standing registration, clean infrastructure, and exact brand match points to a legitimate news outlet.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The site presents as a standard Russian news portal with sections for politics, economy, society, sports, and culture. Real-time currency rates and weather appear alongside a functional navigation bar and social media links to VK, OK, and Telegram. The page includes a cookie consent banner and carries the exact branding of Moskovskij Komsomolets.

Infrastructure

The domain resolves to IP 85.193.70.155 with an abuse score of 0/100 and no reported incidents. SSL certificate issued by GlobalSign remains valid with 76 days until expiry. One redirect hop occurs with no cross-domain or homoglyph activity. External resources load from known Russian domains including yandex.ru and counter.yadro.ru.

Domain History

Business registration records show АО «Редакция газеты «Московский Комсомолец» registered 14 April 1993 in Moscow under OGRN 1027739281976. The newspaper itself dates to 1919 with the website active since at least 1997. No WHOIS age data surfaced in public records.

Web Reputation

No scam reports, complaints, or negative listings appear for mk.ru. The domain matches the official site of the established newspaper and carries active Roskomnadzor media registration. Independent sources confirm the publishing company remains operational with headquarters in Moscow.

What this means for you

The site shows consistent signals of a legitimate, long-running news publication. Visitors can browse articles without elevated risk of malware or phishing based on current scan data.

Positive Signals

Zero antivirus engines flagged the domain as malicious.
Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and clean reputation.
Publishing company registered in Russia since 1993 with active status.
Page renders as professional news portal with matching brand elements.
No scam reports or complaints found across web sources.

AI Recommendation

The site appears safe for normal news browsing. No special precautions are required beyond standard safe browsing habits.

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 mk.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · Russia

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

No scam reports found

No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

mk.ru is the official website of «Московский Комсомолец» (Moskovskij Komsomolets / MK), a daily Russian newspaper founded in 1919.
Company АО «Редакция газеты «Московский Комсомолец» registered 14 April 1993 in Moscow; still active with OGRN 1027739281976.
Wikipedia and multiple sources confirm it as a major Moscow-based newspaper with print circulation historically 900k–2M; website active since at least 1997.
No scam reports, Trustpilot/ScamAdviser/ScamDoc listings, or user complaints found specifically for mk.ru (searches returned unrelated domains like mk-f.ru or today-mk.ru).
LinkedIn company page lists MK.RU | Московский комсомолец as newspaper publishing business headquartered in Moscow.
Site registered as electronic mass media with Roskomnadzor (certificate dated 2020, status active).
No domain WHOIS/age data located in public searches; page title/description match the legitimate news portal exactly.

Business registration

Status: active · Russia

АО «Редакция газеты «Московский Комсомолец» registered 14 April 1993 in Moscow (OGRN 1027739281976, INN 7703046121); operates as publisher of the newspaper and mk.ru site. Multiple regional MK sites list it as founder.

Research summary

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

Our research found the domain matches the official website of the newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets, founded in 1919. The publishing company АО «Редакция газеты «Московский Комсомолец» has held active registration in Moscow since 1993. No scam reports, complaints, or negative listings appear for mk.ru in available sources.

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 in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

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 ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Technical Details

domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referenced

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 profiles1

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

ProtocolTLSv1.2

IssuerGlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025

ExpiresSep 23, 2026 (76d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingSvyaz VSD LLC

Server locationRU

Web servernginx

PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://mk.ru/
2200https://www.mk.ru/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPSvyaz VSD 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.

counter.yadro.ru yandex.ru sportmk.ru avtovzglyad.ru ohotniki.ru womanhit.ru t.me vk.com odnoklassniki.ru max.ru dzen.ru rutube.ru mk-mosobl.ru cdn.viqeo.tv

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 mk.ru and not a lookalike like m-k.ru.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

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·mk.ru

SAFE

mk.ru is the official website of the long-established Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets. The domain shows clean scans, valid SSL, and a registered Russian publishing company active since 1993. No scam indicators appear in the evidence.

The site appears safe for normal news browsing. No special precautions are required beyond standard safe browsing habits.

AV engines

Domain age

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Flagged

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Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, 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 mk.ru. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
mk.ru passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
Yes. mk.ru presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report mk.ru as clean.
No. mk.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
mk.ru resolves to an IP operated by Svyaz VSD LLC 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.
Yes. mk.ru sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around mk.ru have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

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