No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is rt.com legit or a scam?
Official Russian state news outlet on a 34-year-old domain with clean scans but push-notification requests.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site presents as a standard news outlet covering world events with a Russian perspective. Its domain age of 12672 days and clean results from our antivirus network and browser blocklists indicate long-term legitimate operation. Business registration confirms ownership by ANO TV-Novosti, a registered Russian media entity. The only technical flag is a push-notification permission request that triggered our spam family match. No malware, phishing, or clone indicators appear in the scan data.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for rt.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain rt.com is the official website of RT (formerly Russia Today), a Russian state-controlled international news network owned by ANO TV-Novosti.
- RT registered as foreign agent in US under FARA in 2017; US indicted RT employees and sanctioned executives in 2024 for alleged election interference.
- Ofcom (UK) has repeatedly fined RT for breaching impartiality rules and broadcasting materially misleading content.
- Trustpilot reviews describe rt.com as 'Russian propaganda website' and 'fake and government controlled news'.
- RT content blocked or restricted on YouTube, Reddit, and other platforms in multiple countries due to disinformation concerns.
- RT has been accused by Western governments and fact-checkers of spreading disinformation on topics including Ukraine, Skripal poisoning, and US biolabs.
- No evidence of rt.com being a typosquat or clone of another brand; it is the original RT domain.
- Trustpilotopen
"Fake and government controlled news . Reports i in RT that 254 civlians reported killed by russian war in Ukraine is a straight out lie, the report said 598 confirmed."
- Trustpilotopen
"RT.com, often presented as a news outlet, is widely recognized as a propaganda arm of the Russian government. Rather than providing objective journalism, the platform consistently disseminates misinformation, fake news, and biased narrative"
- Redditopen
"Rt is actually one of the best news sources out there and compared to western propaganda outlets its not even close."
ANO TV-Novosti (Autonomous Non-profit Organization TV-News), registered 6 April 2005 in Moscow; state-funded via Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
- Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://rt.com/
- 2301https://rt.com/
- 3200https://www.rt.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 rt.com and not a lookalike like r-t.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 rt.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- rt.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. rt.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 71 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- rt.com is 34.7 years old, registered on 9/23/1991 through Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER. 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 rt.com as clean.
- No. rt.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- rt.com resolves to an IP operated by DDOS-GUARD LTD 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.
- 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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