Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security feature we have come to expect as standard by 2024. Most of today’s websites offer some form of it, and some of them won’t even let you use their service until you enable 2FA. Individual countries have adopted laws that require certain types of organizations to protect users’ accounts with 2FA.
Unfortunately, its popularity has spurred on the development of many methods to hack or bypass it that keep evolving and adapting to current realities. The particular hack scheme depends on the type of 2FA that it targets. Although there are quite a few 2FA varieties, most implementations rely on one-time passwords (OTPs) that the user can get via a text message, voice call, email message, instant message from the website’s official bot or push notification from a mobile app. These are the kind of codes that most online scammers are after.
Read more…
Source: Kaspersky
Related:
- Fake Mobile Apps Steal Facebook Credentials, Cryptocurrency-Related Keys
May 16, 2022
Trend Micro researchers recently observed a number of apps on Google Play designed to perform malicious activities such as stealing user credentials and other sensitive user information, including private keys. Because of the number and popularity of these apps — some of them have been installed over a hundred thousand times — we decided to ...
- Microsoft: May Windows updates cause AD authentication failures
May 12, 2022
Microsoft is investigating a known issue causing authentication failures for some Windows services after installing updates released during the May 2022 Patch Tuesday. This comes after Windows admins started sharing reports of some policies failing after installing this month’s security updates with “Authentication failed due to a user credentials mismatch. Either the user name provided does ...
- Indian government wants VPNs to store and share user data
May 4, 2022
A new directive from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) requires VPN companies to retain data on users for 5 years or more. The rule also applies to data centres and cryptocurrency exchanges and will come into effect from July 27. According to a new directive, ...
- Microsoft confirms it was breached by hacker group
March 23, 2022
Microsoft has confirmed it was breached by the hacker group Lapsus$, adding to the cyber gang’s growing list of victims. In a blog post late Tuesday, Microsoft said Lapsus$ had compromised one of its accounts, resulting in “limited access” to company systems but not the data of any Microsoft customers.” Our cybersecurity response teams quickly engaged to ...
- Authentication oufit Okta investigating Lapsus$ breach report
March 22, 2022
The Lapsus$ extortion crew has turned its attention to identity platform Okta and published screenshots purportedly showing the group gaining access to the company’s internals. The incident follows the group’s claim over the weekend that it had made off with chunks of Microsoft’s code. However, a compromise at Okta could be altogether more serious since the ...
- Android app with 100,000 downloads contained password-stealing malware, say security researchers
March 22, 2022
Google has removed an app with over 1000,000 downloads from its Play Store after security researchers warned that the app was able to harvest the Facebook credentials of smartphone users. Researchers at French mobile security firm Pradeo said the app embeds Android trojan malware known as “Facestealer” because it dupes victims into typing in their Facebook ...