No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is recordedfuture.com legit or a scam?
Official site of Recorded Future, a 17-year-old threat intelligence firm acquired by Mastercard, with clean security scans and strong industry reviews.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The website appears to be a legitimate corporate page for Recorded Future, featuring professional design, standard navigation, and no visual indicators of a scam.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional corporate layout with consistent branding for Recorded Future
High-quality graphics including a Gartner Magic Quadrant chart
Standard navigation menu with functional links to platform, services, and research
Standard cookie consent banner with clear privacy policy link
No urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or suspicious pop-ups present
Intelligence
The domain registered in January 2009 and has maintained continuous operation for over 17 years. Only one antivirus engine flagged the page while 91 others cleared it. The page shows professional corporate design with Gartner Magic Quadrant references and no urgency tactics or suspicious forms. Business registration confirms Recorded Future, Inc. as an active Delaware corporation headquartered in Massachusetts and acquired by Mastercard in late 2024. Independent review sites show 4.6 out of 5 ratings from hundreds of verified users. No scam reports or phishing complaints appear in the evidence package.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for recordedfuture.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered January 2009 (17+ years old); official site of Recorded Future, Inc., a cybersecurity threat intelligence firm.
- Acquired by Mastercard for $2.65 billion in September 2024; acquisition finalized December 2024.
- Gartner Peer Insights: 4.6/5 from 278 verified reviews (71% 5-star).
- Wikipedia and company sources confirm HQ in Somerville, MA; ~1,000 employees; serves 1,900+ customers in 80+ countries.
- No scam reports, phishing complaints, or consumer fraud allegations found in searches; company itself publishes research on scams and fraud.
- One Reddit thread in r/threatintel criticizes product as having 'a lot of junk' and notes some clients ended subscriptions.
- Minor historical controversy (2015) over alleged privacy analysis of Facebook messages, later disproven; designated 'undesirable organization' in Russia (Dec 2024).
Recorded Future, Inc. incorporated 2009, headquartered Somerville, Massachusetts; subsidiary of Mastercard since Dec 2024 acquisition; SAM.gov registered since 2010, address 363 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144; organized under Delaware law per court filing.
Our research located two positive review sources: Gartner Peer Insights showing 4.6/5 from 278 ratings and G2 highlighting user praise for actionable intelligence. Business records confirm Recorded Future, Inc. as an active U.S. company acquired by Mastercard in December 2024. One Reddit thread in r/threatintel offered mixed product feedback but contained no fraud allegations. No scam reports, phishing complaints, or consumer fraud cases were found in any searched sources.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 4, 2009Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 18 years old today.
- Jul 9, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
recordedfuture.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://recordedfuture.com/
- 2301https://recordedfuture.com/
- 3200https://www.recordedfuture.com/
Server Reputation
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 recordedfuture.com and not a lookalike like r-ecordedfuture.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Final Verdict
Recorded Future is a long-established cybersecurity threat intelligence company. The domain is 17.5 years old with clean scans and positive third-party reviews. No payment or login forms are present.
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 recordedfuture.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- recordedfuture.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. recordedfuture.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 254 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- recordedfuture.com is 17.5 years old, registered on 1/4/2009 through Name.com, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged recordedfuture.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. recordedfuture.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- recordedfuture.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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. recordedfuture.com 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.
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