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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Krebs on Security

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Image: Cloudflare.com. ” On July 28 and again on Aug. In an Aug.

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The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

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In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That is true two-factor authentication: Something you have, and something you know (and maybe also even something you are).

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

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The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

Bill said this criminal group averages between five and ten million email authentication attempts daily, and comes away with anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 of working inbox credentials. “For context, our research indicates that multi-factor authentication prevents more than 99.9%

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

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. “A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

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Perhaps the biggest selling point for U-Admin is a module that helps phishers intercept multi-factor authentication codes. Qbot) — to harvest one-time codes needed for multi-factor authentication. 2020 blog post on an ongoing Qakbot campaign that was first documented three months earlier by Check Point Research.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

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“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software.