Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Dropbox phishing

Although we have discussed methods more sophisticated than phishing to lure in users, phishing simply works well for certain sites, especially cloud storage sites.

With the volume of data rapidly expanding, people have resorted to cloud storage. Every day, millions of users back up their content by uploading it to sites such as Dropbox. Phishing often takes advantage of such individual services.

Attackers create fake sign-in pages for Dropbox as a part of credential harvesting. They then use the stolen credentials to log in to legitimate sites and steal user data.