Researchers detail attacks for compromising Dropbox user accounts

Dropbox, the popular file hosting service that has managed to amass over 100 million users in the five years since it was launched, has had its fair share of problems: security glitches, hacks, being used as a malware hosting site, etc.

The latest one are two researchers that not only managed to reverse engineer (unpack, decrypt and decompile) the Dropbox client software (i.e. desktop app), but have documented the step-by-step process and have made it public.

 

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