No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is sec.gov legit or a scam?
Official U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website with a 28-year-old .gov domain and clean security record.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is the primary domain for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an independent federal agency. Its domain age exceeds 28 years and carries valid government registration status. All security scans returned clean results with zero detections across antivirus engines and blocklists. The visual analysis confirms the authentic homepage layout and branding. Evidence from multiple sources, including Wikipedia, verifies its legitimacy with no reports of fraud or impersonation tied to the real domain itself.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot 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
Screenshot shows the fully rendered, legitimate SEC.gov homepage with official U.S. government branding and no scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sec.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official U.S. government website (sec.gov) of the Securities and Exchange Commission, an independent federal agency.
- Domain age exceeds 28 years (10,473 days as provided); hosts EDGAR database, rulemaking, enforcement news, and investor resources.
- Provides official forms for submitting tips/complaints about securities violations, fraud, and impersonation scams.
- Multiple SEC pages and investor alerts warn the public about fraudsters impersonating the SEC or using its name/logo.
- Confirmed as legitimate in Wikipedia, LinkedIn company page, congressional references, and .gov official notices.
- No search results identify sec.gov itself as fraudulent, cloned, or a typosquat; all references treat it as the authentic regulator site.
- Wikipediaopen
"The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash of 1929."
Independent federal regulatory agency established by Congress in 1934; official .gov domain of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Our research located one positive reference on Wikipedia describing the SEC as the official U.S. federal agency. No scam reports, complaints, or impersonation alerts were found for sec.gov itself. The domain is repeatedly referenced as the authentic source for filings, enforcement actions, and investor alerts.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sec.gov/
- 2301https://sec.gov/
- 3200https://www.sec.gov/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 sec.gov and not a lookalike like s-ec.gov.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.
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 sec.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sec.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sec.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1, expiring in 188 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sec.gov is 28.7 years old, registered on 10/1/1997 through get.gov. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report sec.gov as clean.
- No. sec.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sec.gov resolves to an IP operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. in US (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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