The sender ’s email account has been hacked into by the cyber-criminal: they are likely to have received the same Dropbox phishing scam recently and surrendered access to their email account, allowing the criminal to distribute the scam to the range of contacts in their address book.īy doing so, recipients are more likely to trust the email ’s content, being from a known friend or acquaintance. The Dropbox scam appears from a named sender, who is likely to be known by the recipient.
Ī sample of the email you should look out for is shown below: MailGuard ’s cloud email filtering technology first detected and blocked this threat as it emerged late yesterday. The scam invites users to login to view a file on the online sharing platform Dropbox. A new Dropbox phishing scam emerged last night, with cyber criminals trying to hack the recipient’s email account by harvesting credentials from a fake Dropbox form.
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