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Friday, December 14th, 2018

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    Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

    Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems:

    Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post. The emails contained a hidden image that alerted the attackers in real time when targets viewed the messages. When targets entered passwords into a fake Gmail or Yahoo security page, the attackers would almost simultaneously enter the credentials into a real login page. In the event targets' accounts were protected by 2fa, the attackers redirected targets to a new page that requested a one-time password.

    This isn't new. I wrote about this exact attack in 2005 and 2009.

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