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Embarrassingly I let checking the URL bar give me a false sense of security and got phished for the first time just a few days ago. They put a fake URL bar into
by ziml77 6y ago
Embarrassingly I let checking the URL bar give me a false sense of security and got phished for the first time just a few days ago. They put a fake URL bar into the page and made it look like a proper OAuth2 URL. (My 2nd factor saved me from giving them access since it slowed me down enough to notice some subtle oddities, but I still had to change the password since that was already submitted)
The real protection against this is making it impossible for me to send credentials to the wrong party. Normally my password manager helps with that, but I had just switched managers a couple days before and it wasn't recognizing all sites properly (likely due to the lack of a database of known equivalent URLs). If the site was using WebAuthn, there wouldn't have been any issue because the imperfect URL checks by me and the password manager would not be necessary.