DropBox Archives - Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024

Threat actors hacked the Dropbox Sign production environment

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 discloses unauthorized access to 130 GitHub source code repositories

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 APT29 relies on Google Drive, Dropbox to evade detection

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 sentenced to 88 months in prison

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

Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian hacker behind Dropbox and LinkedIn hacks found guilty

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

Dropbox paid more than $1 Million via its bug bounty program

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 hit by malware spread via Dropbox links

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

Download for free 68 Million account details from Dropbox Data Breach

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

Rambler.ru data breach, 98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords leaked online

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

Spotify resets users’ passwords due to data breaches suffered by other firms

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. […]

DropBox

Threat actors hacked the Dropbox Sign production environment

Dropbox discloses unauthorized access to 130 GitHub source code repositories

Russia-linked APT29 relies on Google Drive, Dropbox to evade detection

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin sentenced to 88 months in prison

Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian hacker behind Dropbox and LinkedIn hacks found guilty

Dropbox paid more than $1 Million via its bug bounty program

Danish-speaking users hit by malware spread via Dropbox links

Download for free 68 Million account details from Dropbox Data Breach

Rambler.ru data breach, 98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords leaked online

Spotify resets users’ passwords due to data breaches suffered by other firms

newsletter

Subscribe to my email list and stay
up-to-date!

recent articles

Critical Sudo bugs expose major Linux distros to local Root exploits

Google fined $314M for misusing idle Android users' data

A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of +62,000 users

China-linked group Houken hit French organizations using zero-days

Cybercriminals Target Brazil: 248,725 Exposed in CIEE One Data Breach

QUICK LINKS

DropBox

newsletter

Subscribe to my email list and stay up-to-date!

recent articles

Subscribe to my email list and stay
up-to-date!