Tag: dropbox

November 2, 2022

The file hosting giant said it learned about the breach on October 14, after being alerted by GitHub. A few weeks earlier, GitHub had warned that some of its users had been targeted in a phishing campaign impersonating the ​​continuous […]

July 22, 2022

A previously unknown macOS spyware has surfaced in a highly targeted campaign, which exfiltrates documents, keystrokes, screen captures, and more from Apple machines. Interestingly, it exclusively uses public cloud-storage services for housing payloads and for command-and-control (C2) communications — an […]

May 24, 2022

Online accounts getting hijacked and misused is an everyday occurrence, but did you know that account pre-hijacking attacks are also possible? Inspired by previous research on preemptive account hijacking by way of single sign-on (SSO) technology, researchers Avinash Sudhodanan and […]

October 6, 2021

Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations’ infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dark […]

November 12, 2018

The partnership is expected to improve threat detection for Dropbox while growing Coronet’s user base. Dropbox has partnered with Israeli security firm Coronet in an agreement expected to ramp up security for the file-sharing platform while increasing Coronet’s user base. […]

June 27, 2017

If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, or Yandex.Disk, then you have no doubt appreciated the convenience of always having all of your important files handy on any device. A file can be shared with friends or coworkers in a second. […]

February 27, 2017

Disillusion with chatbots has set in across the tech industry and yet Dropbox’s deep thinkers believe they have spotted the technology’s hidden talent: cybersecurity. The company is so sure of the concept that it has announced plans to deploy something […]

August 31, 2016

Dropbox’s move last week to ask users who had signed up before mid-2012 to change their account passwords followed the discovery of a large dump of email addresses and passwords related to these accounts. The online storage company confirmed late […]

March 11, 2015

#android apps that use #dropbox for #storage and are built using an older version of its #sdk are vulnerable to an attack that can steal data, although Dropbox has released a fix, according to IBM #security researchers.IBM’s #application security research […]

August 21, 2014

New security features have been added this week for users of Dropbox for Business accounts, who are the priority for all Dropbox measures relating to protection of user privacy. On Tuesday, the company announced that its privileged users would benefit […]

June 27, 2014

A variant of the PlugX RAT (remote access tool) has been discovered to use a Dropbox account to update the settings for the command and control server. Researchers at Trend Micro found that the new variant of the malware targets […]