Verdict
businesstimes.com.sg appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Article landing page from The Business Times covering regional and global business news, opinion and sector coverage; includes subscription prompts and typical publisher navigation and topic lists. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20065000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon ECDSA 256 M04 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2006.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
The Business Times is a commercial business-news publisher presenting regional and global reporting, opinion, sector coverage, newsletters and premium content, with an apparent business model based on subscriptions, advertising, sponsored content and events.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no blacklist or phishing hit, no brand-impersonation indicator, and no conflicting legal identities. The article page has conventional publisher navigation, subscription prompts and news content rather than credential-harvesting forms; behavioral inspection also found no hidden forms, wallet activity or password-submission mechanism. A single abuse report relates to shared Amazon content-delivery infrastructure, carries zero confidence, and is not attributed to this website, so it does not materially undermine the otherwise clean reputation picture.
- The global article page contains business-news navigation, topic lists and subscription prompts, with no sensitive form or login form detected.
- Historical records show 5,000 snapshots from 2006-05-06 through 2020-09-27, covering 15 tracked years with a maximum gap of 1 year.
- The domain was registered on 1997-05-19 and is approximately 29.25 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Available evidence is consistent with an established news publisher rather than a financial-services platform requiring the licensing disclosures typical of a broker, exchange or payment provider. The site’s commercial model is presented through editorial content, advertising and subscriptions; no financial-services license is claimed in the supplied page material. The real-world operator identity is not independently verified, so the site’s apparent legitimacy should not be treated as proof of a particular legal entity. No matching third-party broker signal was identified.
- The global article page identifies a mature editorial offering across Economy & Policy, Companies, International, Asean, Singapore, Opinion and Technology.
- Domain registration is through CSC Corporate Domains Inc.
- The site is served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US; its TLS certificate is issued by Amazon ECDSA 256 M04 at DV validation level and is valid through 2027-02-04.
- The page describes subscription access, advertising, sponsored content and events rather than regulated financial products.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the publisher’s legal entity and official support channels using information obtained through a trusted, separate source. For any paid subscription, review the applicable renewal, cancellation and refund terms and use payment methods providing ordinary transaction protection. If an interaction extends beyond news access into financial products or investment services, confirm the relevant authorization directly with the applicable regulator.
- The supplied page presents subscription prompts and premium-access features, making billing, renewal and cancellation terms the most relevant transaction checks.
- The site’s operator identity remains independently unverified, supporting an independent merchant-identity check before payment.
- The available material describes a news-publishing service and does not establish authorization for any separate financial-service activity.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. Confidence is strong but not conclusive because the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Amazon CloudFront CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic resolving to Amazon edge servers rather than a directly exposed origin. This provides a meaningful mitigation against basic origin exposure and network abuse, but remains an infrastructure control rather than proof of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; credentials or payments should follow the independent merchant-identity, terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 108.156.22.117 (Amazon.com, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of businesstimes.com.sg.
- The request stayed on businesstimes.com.sg. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSC Corporate Domains Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-23.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-19. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2006-05-06. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 108.156.22.117 |
| Name servers | ns-1208.awsdns-23.org, ns-1993.awsdns-57.co.uk, ns-364.awsdns-45.com, ns-621.awsdns-13.net |
| SSL issuer | Amazon ECDSA 256 M04 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-04 |
| Domain age | 29.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-19 |
| Archive first seen | 2006-05-06 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about businesstimes.com.sg at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.