Collaborate Disseminate
A report published today by Menlo Security, a provider of a global cloud proxy platform, details the degree to which public cloud file services are now being used as a mechanism to distribute malware. The report finds nearly one-third (29%) of all att… Continue reading Report Details Security Threats Posed by Cloud File Services
A nation-state actor that has links with Chinese hackers is exploiting two new backdoors to run a cyber-espionage campaign against gambling entities in Southeast Asia, according to Trend Micro research. The new activity, which is also reportedly occurring in Europe and the Middle East, was first unearthed last year when cybersecurity consultancy Talent-Jump Technologies found a Microsoft Windows backdoor and contacted Trend Micro while conducting incident response for a company based in the Philippines. Upon further investigation, it wasn’t immediately clear if the group itself, which Trend Micro has dubbed “DRBControl,” is a newcomer, according to Trend Micro researchers Daniel Lunghi, Cedric Pernet, Kenney Lu, and Jamz Yaneza. Based on DRBControl’s techniques and malware, there are some connections with Chinese-linked APT 27. That threat group is known for its targeting in the aerospace, government, defense, technology, and energy industries. DRBControl may also be tied to Winnti group, according to Trend Micro’s […]
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The file-sharing service also disclosed details of past notable bugs for the first time. Continue reading Dropbox Passes $1M Milestone for Bug-Bounty Payouts
Back in 2013, Dropbox was scaling fast. The company had grown quickly by taking advantage of cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), but when you grow rapidly, infrastructure costs can skyrocket, especially when approaching the scale Dropbox was at the time. The company decided to build its own storage system and network — a […] Continue reading Moving storage in-house helped Dropbox thrive
What did you do for the holidays? If you’re a cybercrime geek you probably took advantage of some of the extra time on your hands to investigate some new phishing sites, right?
Jone Fredrick is the type of Facebook user who is quite open abou… Continue reading Backdoored Phishing Kits are still popular
With the shift in the way designers fit into organizations and the way design fits into business overall, the design ecosystem is following the same path blazed by enterprise SaaS companies in recent years. Continue reading Design may be the next entrepreneurial gold rush
Dropbox launches Transfer to offer a send-it-and-forget-it solution where you simply upload files that you need to hand-off to someone else and forget about it.
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Cybercriminals are using enterprise-based development and deployment strategies, such as phishing as a service (PaaS), to leverage some of the world’s largest tech brands, with 42.63% of domains observed targeting Microsoft, PayPal, DHL, and Dropbox, a… Continue reading Cybercriminals using custom phishing tools to target the world’s largest tech brands
Reyes Daniel Ruiz went after younger women’s accounts, including those of his personal friends and work colleagues, he admitted. Continue reading Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts
According to Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, 80% of the product’s users rely on it, at least partially, for work. It makes sense, then, that the company is refocusing to try and cement its spot in the workplace; to shed its image as “just” a file storage company (in a time when just about every big […] Continue reading Why is Dropbox reinventing itself?