What Is Imgur.com?
Imgur.com is an image hosting and sharing website. It was founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009. Many people use Imgur to find images instead of using search engines like Google for images. Most images on Google aren’t free to use whereas the images uploaded to Imgur can be used by others. Imgur.com also allows for comments beneath the images, creating a social experience for new images that get uploaded to the site.
Website: https://imgur.com/
Is Imgur.com Safe?
I conducted a series of malware tests to find out if imgur.com is safe and legit. Here are the results:
I installed the Malwarebytes Browser Guard on my Edge browser and was able to browse the site imgur.com without any issues.
To check this further I ran malware scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot on my computer after browsing the site imgur.com and they returned no malware detection. I also ran a system-wide scan with Microsoft Defender and no malware was found.
To try to confirm that the site is clean, I also checked the site imgur.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/imgur.com
Sucuri says the site imgur.com is a low security risk and doesn’t have any malware. Moreover, no security vendors associated with VirusTotal have blacklisted the site imgur.com as malicious.
Some hardening improvements could be made such as adding a website firewall and solving the missing security headers listed below:
Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors ‘none’. Affected pages:
https://imgurinc.com/about
https://imgurinc.com/advertise
https://imgurinc.com/careers
https://imgurinc.com/mobileappsMissing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing.
Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
Lastly, I ran a malware scan with VirusTotal on the domain imgur.com and no security vendor has flagged the site as malicious. You can see the same here: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/imgur.com
In conclusion, the site imgur.com doesn’t have malware and isn’t blacklisted according to Sucuri. Moreover, it isn’t flagged as malicious by any security vendor associated with VirusTotal.