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What you want to do is get a box of deck screws a cheap drill, and a stud finder. Find the stud behind the cabinets, then put the deck screw through the top and bottom board at a 45° angle from the outside through the cabinet, into the stud. That will put about 6cm of screw to anchor through both the frame and back of the cabinet. Only way it's comming down is if the wall does.
While you're at it, replace the screws holding your door to the wall with them too, the normal screws for a door hinge are 1.5cm max, this will allow your door to sag as well as allow it to be easily knocked down. Replacing them with deck screws makes that far less likely.
If it wasn't an apartment, I'd have already fixed them up. I have the tools and the know-how; not the permission. 😮💨
As someone who has lived in apartments for most of my adult life, there are two easy fixes for this. If your place has a maintenance guy, hunt him down and either ask him to come by and do exactly this, or if it'd be fine for you to do it yourself. Most maintenance guys are just cool stoners who can fix things and they'll give 0 fucks if you want to fix something for them so long as you don't fuck up and have to call him to fix it.
If you have a land Lord, it's almost exactly the same. Call them, tell them you have an issue you need them to fix, then off hand mention how you'd just do it yourself and explain how before saying you wouldn't want to get in trouble for messing with their property. Again, most land lords will take you up on it and just let you.
If you have a corperate or bank land Lord, do it anyways and if anyone asks down the road just say it was like that when you got here. They're too beaurocratic to actually notice or care.