Website reputation report

thesun.co.uk

Last checked 2 days ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

thesun.co.uk is currently classified in the News & Media category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include latest, exclusives, world.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

74/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure92 Website Security95 Security Hygiene60 Transparency54 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about thesun.co.uk

Updated Sep 29, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on thesun.co.uk. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: RITA ORA has landed herself in some very hot water – and is being sued by her former manager for more than £3million. I…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on May 19, 1997. Registrar: Markmonitor Inc..

Recorded expiry date: May 19, 2028. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Nov 25, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 74/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on thesun.co.uk

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

News, sport, celebrities and gossip | The SunGet the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun Rita Ora locked in £3.2 million legal battle with ex manager amid bombshell claims singer LIED about her earningsRITA ORA has landed herself in some very hot water – and is being sued by her former manager for more than £3million. I exclusively revealed... Dear Deidre Help |https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/dear-deidre-help/ Contact Us |Customer ServicesIf you have a general inquiry about The Sun, Reader offers or promotions.Click here for the Help HubTo contact thesun.co.uk email hel Latest News headlines, exclusives and opinion | The SunBreaking headlines and latest news from the UK and the World. Exclusives, live updates, pictures, video and comment from The Sun Politics News - Latest International & UK Politics News |The SunLatest Politics News, thought, comment and analysis for the UK, EU and world. Today's political news and though from The Sun So were they just FUEL thieves? Cops reveal ‘quantity’ of petrol found in RAF 'bomb plot' vans as London homes raidedMYSTERY surrounds the ongoing probe into a suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford - as the discovery of a "quantity of petrol" in vans outside the... Breaking UK news and exclusives | The SunStay up to date with latest and breaking news across the UK. With exclusives, opinion, pictures and videos from The Sun Brit woman dies on Ibiza beach after being pulled from sea in front of horrified holidaymakersA BRITISH woman has died in a suspected drowning on a family-friendly beach in Ibiza. The pensioner was pulled out of the water this afternoon... World News - Latest International & World News Today | The SunAll the latest news from around the world. With breaking stories, exclusives, videos and pictures from The Sun

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on thesun.co.uk

10 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

latestTitle, Meta description5 sampled pages
exclusivesTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
worldTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
breakingTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
politicsTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
beingTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
helpTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
picturesMeta description3 sampled pages
opinionTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
todayTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
92/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
60/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
54/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
85/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-09-29T06:26:15+00:00
HTML bytes submitted1,561,363
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-09-29T18:00:06+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,017

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 4 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts4
Inline scripts25
Embedded frames0
External script hosts2

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

Partial analysis. Only the first 512 KiB of the page were inspected.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainthesun.co.uk
RegistrarMarkmonitor Inc.
RegisteredMay 19, 1997
Domain age29 years
ExpiresMay 19, 2028
Registry statusesserver delete prohibited · server transfer prohibited · server update prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address192.0.66.2
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNAmazon CloudFront
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.thesun.co.uk/
Endpoint192.0.66.2
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFAmazon CloudFront · Not detected
DNS surface32 records · 4 nameservers · 2 mail exchangers
Protection signals4 security headers · 2 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size1,561,363 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observed2
Script resources4 · 2 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YE1
Valid fromAug 27, 2026
Valid untilNov 25, 2026
Certificate namesiframe.thesun.co.uk · thesun.co.uk · www.thesun.co.uk

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A192.0.66.2TTL —
NSns-1478.awsdns-56.orgTTL —
NSns-1970.awsdns-54.co.ukTTL —
NSns-405.awsdns-50.comTTL —
NSns-640.awsdns-16.netTTL —
MX1 mxa-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.comTTL —
MX10 mxb-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.comTTL —
TXT00d20000000cog5eaoTTL —
TXT6j2pfjlk25t2mbgjtqv5gq3hmchtrkwfTTL —
TXTadobe-idp-site-verification=627d3f0b-a0d9-4a42-93c9-52d7e9b35602TTL —
TXTatlassian-domain-verification=uNoIhBXurxzVlQa0FvK2t9Yld5byfvXbFRQaMToGvrieKjBdylMs8jcSXRKQKqaoTTL —
TXTfigma-domain-verification=b411f1d2852c2c7e057a2d6d70fb22896f37ccc1412d1e1bb4f9da14e2b78ad9-1769000244TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=03Y2kKMdenvUPoEswcV75nBxRUfMR2F7nu4Ym2Bj9CgTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=51m6lrrVo632ZuCqs4SqZZ6N5n6T9_goU9aaf40P0tETTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=8NQNb3fg0E9f3H0p4HnMV0qFgY9ZMPwignjAgYmCllITTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=a576LGe3E0YA5QjAMY268jcuKWwPLIORxwlTMrjnfnETTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=B0ZYMWDxLa5XxtE_cbGUpwtB07xOSb3hRXsVU4rL_88TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=D1F-vgfcPF7Tu6VDTyDxeeWVaHvOvw_HmDba3Iea-3gTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=eixRLq6ZFPfabL_W12if1QGJxwbBXFQhFO5J0Vc27EETTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=gb4PdUXv8Z6Zo_IcEDeNZoFhph7P4Yo7NFZTc2CLIY0TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=hc4Vrp8sPUek7njgfxNHum9CXmJ0OnmTjwXdlxRKxZETTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=ktbIDvT70_hbFNTapMeOkJ5BkjqY5hO7HRFtkB0yzHcTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=S4cYKZ1Loesq-BgxfX_ddNqvD8vfhDneE_1tD8CE-YATTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=V3d6HoAVyohf82CQPLv2n7K3M-vZeKAa0O5viYf41uYTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=yrJcP_0hr0wOFdsxjyzctmwWP8_ZtQDxmg6oMhtjGRoTTL —
TXTknowbe4-site-verification=0694ce74005828dc4bb8b7299bfb6f61TTL —
TXTmiro-verification=876fd2e87e812aadd96eca532bf071be63109b0eTTL —
TXTMS=ms48418918TTL —
TXTsfv90rs4tcf2wkhcl2tnj311z1z5zn1gTTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com ~allTTL —
TXTValidationTokenValue=2a79563d-5a1e-4202-9cb0-a418f81c5166TTL —
TXTZOOM_verify_02A0JDVORdqHbeawnzucYgTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFDNS lookup unavailable
DMARCPolicy record observed, not fully validated

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

4 observed
content-security-policypresent frame-ancestors nypost.com decider.com pagesix.com *.nypost.com *.decider.com *.pagesix.com *.thesun.co.uk *.the-sun.com *.thescottishsun.co.uk *.thesun.ie *.staging-thesun.co.uk *.staging-the-sun.com *.staging-thescottishsun.co.uk *.staging-thesun.ie au-script.dotmetrics.net dscms.newscorp.com *.dowjones.io
permissions-policypresent unload=()
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=31536000;includeSubdomains;preload
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation
Cookies observed2
Missing Secure1
Missing HttpOnly2
Missing SameSite1

Only cookie attribute counts are retained. Cookie names and values are never stored. These observations are not proof of compromise and do not independently change the Safety Score.

Detected stack

Technologies

Nginx 93% WordPress 95%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

4 sampled JavaScript files checked locally with Retire.js. Database snapshot: 2026-09-29T02:40:05.559Z.

No supported library version was identified in the sampled files. This does not establish that the scripts are safe.

A version match is not proof that the website is infected or that an issue is exploitable here. Owners should review the advisory, check whether their code is affected and test an update. Up to four external script files are sampled, not every dependency, inline script or dynamically loaded resource.

Recommended maintenance checks

NginxReview the Nginx branch and keep security patches current. Avoid exposing detailed server version headers.
WordPressKeep WordPress core, themes and plugins updated. Remove unused plugins and review administrator accounts.

About this website

What the site says about itself

RITA ORA has landed herself in some very hot water – and is being sued by her former manager for more than £3million. I exclusively revealed...

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Emailexclusive@the-sun.co.ukSource: https://www.thesun.co.uk/contact-us/
Emailhelp@thesun.co.ukSource: https://www.thesun.co.uk/contact-us/
Emailsubs@ocsmedia.netSource: https://www.thesun.co.uk/contact-us/
Emailenquiries@newslicensing.co.ukSource: https://www.thesun.co.uk/contact-us/
Emailletters@the-sun.co.ukSource: https://www.thesun.co.uk/contact-us/

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleNews, sport, celebrities and gossip | The Sun
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionGet the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun
Canonical URLhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/
Final URLhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=UTF-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen-US
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/About page detectedhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/40532908/rita-ora-legal-battle-ex-manager-lied-earnings/Contact page detectedhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/contact-us/Support page detectedhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/dear-deidre-help/
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en-US100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has default src100% evidence confidence
32100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions geolocation restricted100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions usb restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions payment restricted100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions microphone restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions camera restricted100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
31536000100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp wildcard sources100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe inline100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp unsafe eval100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp has object src100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.thesun.co.uk/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

A comparison will appear after the next completed scan.

Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
steady-harbor-trace-468

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

Website icon for thesun.co.uk

Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of thesun.co.uk
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about thesun.co.uk

FAQ

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Is thesun.co.uk safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 74/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on thesun.co.uk?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was thesun.co.uk registered?

The public registry record shows May 19, 1997. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did thesun.co.uk have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does thesun.co.uk describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.