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MSP-SOC
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

No Response from Dropbox re: Compromised Accounts

Over the past ~30 days, we have had several clients who have experienced misuse of their Dropboxes following a business email compromise event.

These threat actors are doing the following:

  • Successfully phish a user to gain access to their business email account
    • Download the users contact list
    • Set a rule to hide incoming emails from Dropbox
  • Create a new Dropbox account using the compromised business email address or take over the users pre-existing Dropbox account by resetting the password
    • Reconfigured MFA / Enabled MFA
    • Upload malicious files and share them using the stolen contact list from within Dropbox

While we are able to secure the users email account, we have been unable to recover/reset/disable the malicious Dropbox accounts due to the threat actors changing the MFA.
This is extremely concerning as Admins cannot see when these malicious files are shared out, and the shares appear legitimate to recipients because they come direct from the Dropbox domain and the sending accounts are tied to legitimate business email addresses.


I created a ticket (#23873516) with the Dropbox Abuse division on June 13, 2024 and have not received any response.
Please advise on what steps we must take to shut down these malicious Dropbox accounts and stop the spread of these attacks.

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hey MSP-SOC, I’m sorry to hear about this situation. 

     

    Since this is an account security matter that needs to be investigated internally indeed, I can try to log a ticket for you and check this further.

     

    Can I message you to the email address showing here

     

    Let me know.

    • MSP-SOC's avatar
      MSP-SOC
      New member | Level 2

      Hi Nancy,
      Yes I can be reached at that email address.

      • Nancy's avatar
        Nancy
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        You’re all set, MSP-SOC. Please reply to my email, when possible, and we’ll take it from there.