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Dropbox Smeared in Week of Megabreaches

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Last week, LifeLock and several other identity theft protection firms erroneously alerted their customers to a breach at cloud storage giant Dropbox.com — an incident that reportedly exposed some 73 million usernames and passwords. The only problem with that notification was that Dropbox didn’t have a breach; the data appears instead to have come from another breach revealed this week at social network Tumblr. Continue reading Dropbox Smeared in Week of Megabreaches→

Dropbox’s latest idea could change the way you think about cloud storage

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dropbox image One of the problems with Dropbox and indeed all cloud storage is the way they have implemented how you view your cloud storage on your local drive. If you want to access your cloud file system in your local file management tool, you literally need to have it stored on your drive, which really defeats the idea of having cloud storage in the first place — especially on devices with… Read More Continue reading Dropbox’s latest idea could change the way you think about cloud storage→

Dropbox spreading malware via spoofed emails about orders – fake PDF malware

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Last revised or Updated on: 15th March, 2016, 1:41 PMContinuing on from these earlier malspam runs [1] [2]  we now have a series of emails with the basic subject of  orders  pretending to come from  different companies with  a link to Dropbox to download a  zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various  Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than … Continue reading → Continue reading Dropbox spreading malware via spoofed emails about orders – fake PDF malware→

photo,my photo,image,pic Sent from my iPhone – fake jpg malware

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Last revised or Updated on: 15th March, 2016, 11:30 AMI haven’t seen a good old fashioned malware spreading email like this one in ages. It is a refreshing change to the bad actors reverting to these old fashioned social engineering tricks pretending to send a photo from their iPhone. An email with the subject of photo,my photo,image,pic  pretending to come from lyle.house@hotmail.co.uk ( probably random addresses) with  a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various  Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email … Continue reading → Continue reading photo,my photo,image,pic Sent from my iPhone – fake jpg malware→