SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is yellowhammernews.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 90/100

Established Alabama news site with 13-year domain history, clean security scans, and active business registration.

yellowhammernews.comScanned 53m ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 95·MT 88
Screenshot of yellowhammernews.comSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 13 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
13 years old
Registered May 20, 2013
Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence

Website Preview

Screenshot of yellowhammernews.com
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yellowhammernews.com

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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.

5
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a legitimate regional news portal with professional design, standard advertising, and functional navigation elements.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Professional news layout with consistent branding and navigation

Legitimate advertising banner for a known casino entity

Content is localized and consistent with the site's apparent regional focus

Standard UI elements including a radio player and menu toggle

Articles include specific bylines and recent timestamps

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust88/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The domain yellowhammernews.com was registered in 2013 and has maintained continuous operation for over a decade. All 92 antivirus engines returned clean results with no blocklist hits. The site displays professional news formatting with bylined articles, timestamps, and standard advertising placements. Business registration records confirm ownership by YHN Media Group LLC in Alabama with active status. Independent review sources rate the outlet as right-biased but high for factual reporting with a clean fact-check record. No scam reports, complaints, or malicious indicators appear in any data source.
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Page Content

The homepage presents as a regional news portal covering Alabama politics, business, faith, and culture. Article listings include author bylines, publication timestamps, and navigation sections for Politics, Business, Faith & Culture, and Sports. A radio network player and subscription option appear in the header. External scripts load from known ad networks and analytics providers including Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.

Infrastructure

The site resolves to IP 104.21.13.144 with an abuse score of zero and no reported incidents. SSL certificate is valid and issued by Google Trust Services. The page loads without redirects beyond a single internal hop and serves standard JavaScript bundles for a content site. No login forms, countdown timers, or credential-harvesting elements are present.

Domain History

WHOIS records show registration on 2013-05-20 through GoDaddy with privacy protection disabled. The domain is 13.1 years old. The registrar and registration details align with a long-operating media property rather than a recently created entity.

Web Reputation

Our research found one positive review from Media Bias Fact Check noting high factual reporting and a clean fact-check record. Business records confirm ownership by YHN Media Group LLC, acquired in 2023 by Alabama-based operators. Zero scam reports or consumer complaints surfaced across searched databases. The outlet is described as a significant Alabama media player with millions of annual pageviews.

What this means for you

The combination of domain age, clean technical scans, verified business ownership, and absence of complaints indicates a legitimate news publication. Readers can treat the site as a standard conservative-leaning Alabama news source.

Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered in 2013 and continuously active for 13.1 years.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services.
  • Business registration confirmed for YHN Media Group LLC in Alabama.
  • Independent review rates the outlet high for factual reporting with no scam mentions.
AI Recommendation
The site appears to be a legitimate regional news outlet. Readers should apply normal media literacy when consuming any political coverage.
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 yellowhammernews.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · USA
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
1 positive
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • Yellowhammer News is a long-standing conservative news and political commentary outlet focused on Alabama, founded in 2011.
  • The site is currently owned by YHN Media Group LLC, which was acquired in 2023 by political consultant Paul Shashy and businessman Thomas Harris.
  • Media Bias Fact Check rates the site as 'Right Biased' but gives it a 'High' rating for factual reporting and a clean fact-check record.
  • The outlet is often cited as a significant player in Alabama media, claiming to be the state's second-largest media outlet with millions of annual pageviews.
  • Columbia Journalism Review has described it as a partisan site that 'capitalizes on America's media polarization' while maintaining local news credibility.
  • The site has clear transparency regarding its editorial team, including Editor-in-Chief Grayson Everett and various staff writers.
Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Media Bias Fact Checkopen

    "We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record."

Business registration
Status: active · USA

Owned by YHN Media Group LLC (formerly Yellowhammer Multimedia LLC), based in Birmingham, Alabama.

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

Our research found one positive review from Media Bias Fact Check rating the site high for factual reporting with a clean fact-check record. Business registration confirms ownership by YHN Media Group LLC in Alabama. No scam reports, consumer complaints, or negative mentions appeared in searched sources.

Domain Timeline

  1. May 20, 2013
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 13 years old today.

  2. Jul 11, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

yellowhammernews.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

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 ↗

Technical Details

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 numbers1943-2026
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles5
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • Phone number listed (1943-2026).
  • Postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 5 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age13 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredMay 20, 2013
ExpiresMay 20, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresSep 5, 2026 (56d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://yellowhammernews.com/
  • 2200https://yellowhammernews.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 yellowhammernews.com and not a lookalike like y-ellowhammernews.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·yellowhammernews.com
SAFE

Yellowhammer News is a 13-year-old Alabama-focused news outlet. The domain shows clean scans across all engines, valid business registration, and positive third-party ratings for factual reporting.

The site appears to be a legitimate regional news outlet. Readers should apply normal media literacy when consuming any political coverage.

AV engines
92
Domain age
13 yrs
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, 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 yellowhammernews.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 13.1 years old, registered on May 20, 2013 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • yellowhammernews.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from yellowhammernews.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from yellowhammernews.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report yellowhammernews.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — yellowhammernews.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • yellowhammernews.com is 13.1 years old, registered on May 20, 2013 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
  • Yes — yellowhammernews.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 56 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • yellowhammernews.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 11, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about yellowhammernews.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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