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Phishing has been commoditised, the criminals don't write their own pages anymore. In fact the phishing toolkits have been doing TOTP passthrough/relay for a f
by bostik 6y ago
Phishing has been commoditised, the criminals don't write their own pages anymore.
In fact the phishing toolkits have been doing TOTP passthrough/relay for a few years now. For the attacker, it's a nice feature: victim could be using SMS, authenticator app or even an out-of-band delivered token book - they are all captured and passed along equally well.
U2F and FIDO2 with hardware keys are the only realistic safeguards. On the other hand, I do subscribe to the stated problem, because for most people they are a usability snag. The NFC variant has the potential to address this, though: instead of plugging a key in and touching the blinky button, you just wave your keyring next to the device. Too bad NFC readers are not universally available on phones, tablets or laptops.
- folmar 6y agoGerman banking has ubiquitous qr-mediated second channel - the authenticator (app or physical device) reads a qr code, shows the transaction details on screen and if they match user types back a code from the app (which is based on qr content).