whatmeworry? Posted October 4, 2014 ID:886485 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I was quite puzzled today to receive an email message from Malwarebytes (info@malwarebytes.org) with the subject header "What you need to know about Google malvertising." To my surprise, the message seemed to have nothing to do with Google but was instead something reprinted from Malwarebytes April Newsletter was a "Q&A on the Heartbleed Bug." I have no idea why Malwarebytes thought it necessary to send this old news now, six months after the April newsletter first appeared, and why the subject header of the message seemed to have nothing to do with the content. I thus am a little suspicious that perhaps Malwarebytes didn't really send this. Could a hacker/phisher have sent it? The message included a lot of links which seemed to go to Malwarebytes, but I wasn't about to test one to see. What's going on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted October 4, 2014 ID:886491 Share Posted October 4, 2014 New casehttps://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2014/09/googles-doubleclick-ad-network-abused-once-again-in-malvertising-attacks/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatmeworry? Posted October 4, 2014 Author ID:886516 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Thanks, pondus, for your response. Yes, what you sent is the sort of thing I expected to see when I opened the Malwarebytes email. Instead, I saw stuff from their April newsletter about Heartbleed. That seemed so weird that I thought perhaps someone other than Malwarebytes was sending it, and that the links might turn out to be phishy. I guess an alternative explanation might be that someone at Malwarebytes in charge of sending these email messages had a bit too much to drink last night. I sent the message just in case the message was indeed NOT sent by Malwarebytes, in which case Malwarebytes should be alerted to this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivealive Posted October 4, 2014 ID:886531 Share Posted October 4, 2014 This isn't the first case I am hearing of people getting April's newsletter in last month or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted October 5, 2014 ID:886702 Share Posted October 5, 2014 There must be something wrong with the newsletter cdn. I, too, received yet another "April Newsletter" all about "Heartbleed" AGAIN yesterday.Yes, the headers show that it was SENT and RECEIVED yesterday. So, I continue to receive Newsletter emails from April, instead of the correct, current ones.This was at least the 2nd time in as many months that this has happened.https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/156545-mbam-marketing-oops/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_Killer Posted October 5, 2014 ID:886778 Share Posted October 5, 2014 i got the most recent news letter and had nothing to do with aprils newsletter.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted October 5, 2014 ID:886808 Share Posted October 5, 2014 i got the most recent news letter and had nothing to do with aprils newsletter.. True, true, and unrelated.But, thanks.I seriously doubt that the team needs to hear from the folks who aren't having problems.That would create an unnecessary flood. This thread is to report a problem, not the absence of one. Thanks, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted October 5, 2014 ID:886824 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I got a Google notification email from Malwareybtes as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted October 5, 2014 ID:886837 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I seriously doubt that the team needs to hear from the folks who aren't having problems.That would create an unnecessary flood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 6, 2014 Root Admin ID:886873 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I've reported it to the team but I wonder if it's somehow simply due to an email provider holding up the mail somehow along the path. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted October 6, 2014 ID:886885 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I have seen that happen for days. Never months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted October 6, 2014 ID:886944 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I've reported it to the team but I wonder if it's somehow simply due to an email provider holding up the mail somehow along the path. I suppose my provider could have a cached copy of the newsletter content?But, seriously, it's been over 2 months; this seems a bit "much", as Dave mentioned.And it's a popular webmail provider account (not my ISP), so it does seem unlikely? Ennywho, there must not be very many folks affected, or we'd probably be hearing more about it from other users. Perhaps the team can cancel my newsletter subscription and then I can resubscribe, to see if that fixes it? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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