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Dropping In: Attackers Leverage Dropbox to Get to Inboxes

Written by Jeremy Fuchs | May 12, 2021

Attackers are sharing files with suspicious names to users through Dropbox. Because Dropbox is a reputable service, most email security vendors will allow these files to come through.

This email was missed by ATP, Mimecast and Proofpoint, and looks like this:

This particular case was complex because this specific company does use Dropbox, but they do not have any correspondence with anyone using the Hotmail/Gmail address shown in the screenshot. Based on that, Avanan's AI was able to detect this as Phishing and promptly quarantine it.