Internet related News · 2018-12-21

Someone’s bypassed the 2 factor authentication for emails – News

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A new wave of attacks is targeting Google and Yahoo accounts in order to bypass 2FA security or what’s known as the 2-factor authentication as well as compromise users of secure email services, said researchers.


Hacker spoofing bypasses 2FA security in Gmail, targets secure email services – ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com Dec 20, 2018 

Google, Yahoo, and ProtonMail accounts are being targeted in a new wave of phishing attacks.

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How Hackers Bypass Gmail 2FA at Scale – Motherboard

https://motherboard.vice.com Dec 19, 2018 

A new Amnesty International report goes into some of the technical details around how hackers can automatically phish two-factor authentication tokens sent to …

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Hackers are successfully attacking Gmail, Yahoo Mail and ProtonMail by beating two-factor authentication – BGR India

https://www.bgr.in Dec 21, 2018 

The report advised users to move to hardware-based security tokens for privacy-conscious users to safeguard against such phishing attac …

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