Quote from: Dare on October 25, 2014, 03:45:23 AM

It's definitely phishing, as the page it's pointing you to doesn't exist on the forum; it was probably hyperlinked to a phishing website with a similar name in the actual email you recieved. The "[Suspicious link removed]" is presumably replacing another phishing link as well.

On top of all that, their spelling and grammar sucks, and Bitcointalk doesn't use Java anywhere (because it's unnecessary and insecure), so it wasn't a very good attempt at phishing in the first place.

Plus, most News is usually at the "News" section for Bitcointalk. Just like when there's a vulnerability.

Also, people would've been blowing a storm up about it on the forum. Not to mention, I've never had someone on Staff contact me via E-Mail, unless I contacted them. And it says this:

Quote from: BTCbyCC$ on October 24, 2014, 01:30:04 PM

This is an automated email - Please do not replay.