Verdict
squidapp.co 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 | Corporate landing page for SQUID news app (Njuice AB). Promotes the mobile news app, advertising product (SQUID Ads), global availability, and contains extensive consent/TCF vendor lists. No signs of phishing or financial investment solicitations. |
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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 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
SQUID is a corporate landing site for a news-aggregation mobile application operated under the name Njuice AB. It presents personalized news from multiple publishers, access to coverage from more than 60 countries and local languages, and an advertising business called SQUID Ads that connects brands with mobile users.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent news and advertising business model rather than investment, lending, cryptocurrency, or other financial solicitation activity. Page analysis found no phishing indicators, login form, hidden form, brand-impersonation signal, or suspicious browser behavior; the site’s stated purpose and observed functionality are consistent. The available evidence supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, while the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage describes SQUID as a personalized news application with content from multiple publishers and availability across more than 60 countries.
- The homepage promotes SQUID Ads and publisher, partner, advertiser, and content-creator relationships rather than financial products.
- The domain was registered on 2015-05-11 and is approximately 11.27 years old through the observed registration continuity.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or blacklist contradiction observed.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies Njuice AB in its corporate presentation and provides About, Contact, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use pages. Its commercial model is advertising-supported news aggregation and mobile app distribution, so the supplied evidence does not indicate a financial-services licensing claim; nevertheless, the available disclosure state is unclear and the operator’s legal identity is not independently verified. Privacy and consent controls are comparatively visible, including an extensive consent-management and vendor disclosure interface. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual support only and not a licensing or regulatory determination.
- The About and homepage content identify the business as SQUID News App and associate it with Njuice AB.
- The homepage exposes links to Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, About, Contact, publisher, partner, advertiser, and content-creator pages.
- The site is hosted on AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YE1, valid through 2026-09-25.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm that Njuice AB is the entity responsible for the service, review the applicable Terms of Use and privacy disclosures, and confirm that any app download or commercial engagement is obtained through the organization’s recognized distribution or contracting channel. For advertising or publishing arrangements, counterparties should validate the business contact and contractual details through an independent route and confirm applicable payment-protection provisions.
- The homepage provides dedicated Contact, About, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy pathways for independent review.
- The site links to Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram profiles, providing additional channels for cross-checking the public business presence.
- The only detected form is a consent-management form; no sensitive submission form was observed.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The conclusion is strong at the site-risk level, but it does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by AWS CDN/WAF infrastructure, with the observed address serving as an edge endpoint and no origin server candidate exposed in the analysis. This is a positive mitigating control that reduces direct origin exposure, although protective hosting alone is not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary service evaluation are proportionate, while independent entity, policy, and payment-protection checks should precede credential submission or payment activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 squidapp.co.
- The request stayed on squidapp.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-37.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-10. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 13.53.179.112 |
| Name servers | NS-297.AWSDNS-37.COM, NS-1234.AWSDNS-26.ORG, NS-521.AWSDNS-01.NET, NS-1947.AWSDNS-51.CO.UK |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-25 |
| Domain age | 11.27 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-10 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about squidapp.co 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.