Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2024
Threat actors breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer email addresses and hashed passwords Cloud storage provider DropBox revealed that threat actors have breached the production infrastructure of the DropBox Sign eSignature service and gained access to customer information and authentication data. Dropbox Sign is a service that allows users to electronically sign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2022
Dropbox disclosed a security breach, threat actors gained unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. File hosting service Dropbox announced that threat actors gained unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. According to the advisory published by Dropbox, the company was the target of a phishing campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2022
Russia-linked threat actors APT29 are using the Google Drive cloud storage service to evade detection. Palo Alto Networks researchers reported that the Russia-linked APT29 group, tracked by the researchers as Cloaked Ursa, started using the Google Drive cloud storage service to evade detection. The Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes) has been active since at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2020
Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. Let’s summarize the criminal activities of the man who was arrested in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2020
The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2020
File hosting service company Dropbox paid out $1 million for vulnerabilities reported by researchers through its bug bounty program. Since the launch of its bug bounty program in 2014, the file-hosting company Dropbox has paid out $1 million to date for vulnerabilities reported by researchers. “Our bug bounty program recently passed a significant milestone. Since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2017
Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company quickly adopted the countermeasures to stop the attack. According to the experts from security firm AppRiver, Danish-speaking users were hit by an unusual malware-based attack. The attack hit Denmark, Germany, and several surrounding Scandinavian countries on Wednesday morning. Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2016
You don’t need to pay in order to receive the full dump from the DropBox data breach, security researcher leaked it online. In August, a data dump containing more than 68 Million account credentials for online cloud storage platform Dropbox was leaked online. Dropbox forced password resets for a number of accounts after discovering the data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2016
The data breach notification service announced the Rambler.ru data breach, more than 98 million CLEARTEXT passwords were leaked online. While I was writing about the BuzzersForum data breach, the news of another clamorous incident is circulating online, this time, the victim is of the  Russian biggest web portals, Rambler.ru. Rambler.ru is one of the largest websites in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded by login credentials from the above services that offered for sales by hackers. […]
