Strange email from ST

[Nikita91]

I received a marketing email from ST with the subject:

   1st dual-sensor IMU with AI, new wireless STM32 modules, flexible BLDC gate drivers, and more

I was interested by this topic:

BLOG POST                                   dracula
A printed organic photovoltaic module powering an STM32U0 MCU
Dracula Technologies’ indoor organic photovoltaic cells harvest enough energy for an MCU that reads sensor data.
Read more 

The "Read more" button goes to:

blog.st.com | RBZ Access denied (403)
Current session has been terminated.
ALERT! You are entering into a secured area! Your IP, Login Time, Username has been noted
and has been sent to the server administrator! This service is restricted to authorized
users only. All activities on this system are logged. Unauthorized access will be fully
investigated and reported to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

Ref: 84.17.60.136 2025-07-03T10:17:45.690Z

I hope the GIGN doesn't show up at my house because I clicked on a link provided by ST about Dracula!

[Javier1]

wishing you luck

 

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Hi @Nikita91, 

I escalated this to our Online support team to check this. The team will get back to you. 

For such cases in the future, you can log the case here: https://ols.st.com/s/ 

Thanks, 
Lina

[Andrew Neil]

I got the same email.

The link took me here https://blog.st.com/dracula/ with no trouble at all.

"RBZ Access denied (403)" sounds like @Nikita91 was too quick off the mark, and tried to view the blog before ST had made it public?

[Nikita91 · Accepted solution]

With some additional tests:

This links doesn't works when the VPN is on, and is OK when the the VPN is off.

Other links of the same email works in any case.