Is mysterium.network safe?
http://mysterium.network/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 0 of 5 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research · not run: did not fully complete
9.6-year-old decentralized VPN site with active Swiss and Lithuanian companies but 35 complaints focused on billing and account lockouts.
Mysterium.network runs a decentralized VPN service using the MYST token. Multiple Trustpilot and App Store reviews report billing failures, unexplained account suspensions, and difficulty cancelling subscriptions. Users should review their payment terms carefully before signing up.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 57/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 2 findings pulled the score down.
What pulled the score down
- ReasonThe legacy verdict is adverse but its decisive evidence is incomplete
- ReasonA required verification for Safe is incomplete
What pushed the score up
No supporting finding was saved with this report.
This report saved its reasons without a severity for each one, so they are listed as saved. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The domain itself is old and the project maintains registered companies in Switzerland and Lithuania. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the page shows professional design with no phishing forms or malware indicators. However the evidence package contains 35 complaints across an independent review aggregator, App Store, Reddit and forums, mostly about billing errors, sudden suspensions, and poor support. Several users describe funds sent but not received and accounts locked without recourse. A 2024 police operation targeting node runners over CSAM distribution adds further operational risk. These service-quality and reputational issues outweigh the clean technical scan and produce a moderate-risk profile.
Page Content
The site presents itself as the landing page for Mysterium Network, an open-source decentralized VPN protocol. Navigation includes links to Ecosystem, Token, Developers, MystNodes, Partners, About, Team, Careers, Community, and Blog. No login forms, countdown timers, or urgent calls-to-action appear. The page loads external assets from static.wixstatic.com and static.parastorage.com, indicating a Wix-hosted frontend.
Infrastructure
The domain resolves to IP 34.149.87.45 with an abuse score of 52/100 and 26 prior abuse reports. SSL certificate is valid from Let's Encrypt and expires in 26 days. Two cross-domain redirects occur but stay within the same domain family. No sandbox results were available.
Domain History
WHOIS records show the domain was registered on 2016-11-18 through NameCheap, giving it an age of 9.6 years. Privacy protection is disabled. The project lists two active corporate entities: Blockdev AG in Zug, Switzerland and UAB MN Intelligence in Vilnius, Lithuania, both marked active.
Web Reputation
Independent review aggregators show a an independent review aggregator score of 1.7/5 from 35 reviews for mysterium.network and 2.6/5 from 136 reviews for the related mysteriumvpn.com domain. Complaints centre on billing failures, account suspensions without explanation, and refund difficulties. Forum posts on Reddit and Linus Tech Tips reference a 2024 international police operation that targeted node operators due to CSAM distribution on the network. Two positive mentions exist but are outnumbered by negative reports.
What this means for you
The project has operated for nearly a decade and maintains registered companies, yet recurring billing and support complaints plus law-enforcement attention around its node network create meaningful user risk. Anyone considering the service should verify current terms, understand node-runner legal exposure, and avoid storing large balances or sensitive data on the platform.
Why the score is 57
The legacy verdict is adverse but its decisive evidence is incomplete. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from July 8, 2026
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safebrowsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- PhishLabs - Unrated
- 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
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Clean
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Sophosdynamic dns and isp sites
- alphaMountain.aiInformation Technology
- BitDefendersociety
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual warning signs were identified
The website appears to be a legitimate landing page for the Mysterium project, featuring professional design and standard web elements without any visual scam indicators.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Professional layout with consistent branding and high-quality graphics
- 02
Standard cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page
- 03
Functional navigation menu with links to Ecosystem, Partners, and Blog
- 04
Clear, descriptive text regarding the project's open-source nature and infrastructure
- 05
No fake urgency, countdown timers, or suspicious trust badges visible
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Open Web Protocol - Mysterium Network
- Meta description
An open-source ecosystem of protocols, tools and infrastructure to liberate the web. Our node network empowers both builders and users to access free information.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
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.
- Domainmysterium.network
- Redirects towww.mysterium.network
- Hosted byGoogle LLC
- Referencesstatic.wixstatic.com · static.parastorage.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 18, 2016Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 years old when this review was saved.
- Jul 8, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for mysterium.network.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://mysterium.network/
- 2301https://mysterium.network/
- 3200https://www.mysterium.network/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
04 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 92 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | saved result · analysed Jul 8, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jul 8, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jul 8, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jul 8, 2026 |
| Independent research | Independent research was not available for this report | Unavailable | Adverse | Not available |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnesssaved result · analysed Jul 8, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jul 8, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jul 8, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jul 8, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultIndependent research was not available for this report
- CompletionUnavailableFindingAdverse
- FreshnessNot available
06 · 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 mysterium.network a scam or a legit website?
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I already paid or entered my details on mysterium.network — what should I do?
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mysterium.network looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
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07 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
9.6-year-old decentralized VPN site with active Swiss and Lithuanian companies but 35 complaints focused on billing and account lockouts.
Mysterium.network runs a decentralized VPN service using the MYST token. Multiple Trustpilot and App Store reviews report billing failures, unexplained account suspensions, and difficulty cancelling subscriptions. Users should review their payment terms carefully before signing up.
08 · Community
Community
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