Security Scan Report: news.stage.bbc.co.uk

Redirected to:
https://www.stage.bbc.com/news
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Submitted: May 6, 2026, 8:07:46 PMCompleted: May 6, 2026, 8:09:14 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 2 IPs in 2 countries across 2 domains to perform 3 HTTP transactions. The main domain is stage.bbc.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://news.stage.bbc.co.uk

Effective URL: https://www.stage.bbc.com/newsRedirected

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #5,649 of the top 1 million websitesTop 10K Site

AI Security Verdict

High Risk

Confidence: 82%

7
Risk Score

The site shows critical malware‑related IDS alerts despite being a well‑established BBC domain, indicating a high risk of compromise.

Risk Factors
Critical IDS alerts (malware data exfiltration and C2 beacon)
High volume of external CDN domains
Large HTTP POST traffic on HTTPS
Potential compromise of a legitimate news site
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

www.stage.bbc.co.uk

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

entertainment media

(62%)

Domain Information

Domain 'news.stage.bbc.co.uk' uses the United Kingdom country-code top-level domain (.co.uk) with subdomain 'news.stage'. The core label 'bbc' covers 3 characters holding zero vowels versus 3 consonants. Breaking it apart gives one word: bbc. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://news.stage.bbc.co.uk

Page Load Overview

5.82s
Total Load Time
247
HTTP Requests
26
Domains
4.1 MB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Language Code:en
Detection Confidence:80%
Script Type:Latin
HTML Lang Attribute:en-GB
Text Length:10,774 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

entertainment media62% confidence
Type: spa
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

entertainment media
62%
news media journalism
29%
documentation technical
26%

Detected Features

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
124146.75.120.82Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
AS54113Fastly, Inc.
123212.58.249.76United Kingdom
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Detected Technologies4

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T159048F77329A063986558498F05B43099F20B143F506C9BCB9BCBAD9BFDED06107BB78

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

3072:V/Qho9PKBb9Js3q9Jzbs6tlg1ySBKwdQ9gcoIsPT2bMy8Oldw:2hoC9JSqzzbs6okSjggcpsr2eAW

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:185292:JQAAPDUIkWAMWCAIvQH7JglQgAwuFFgGAhBY7xARBTEARBbBINUlBWMihNyUGMJyCFKdHgwiRFsACBx8QQKBEHjIEG4DNmkb

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:ffc7c7c3f3ffffff
Perceptual Hash:b1319acecc653333
Difference Hash:001c181606000000
Wavelet Hash:f0d0c4c0f0f0f0f0
Color Hash:#97ac53

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:001c181606000000

Scan History

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