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> […] use their hardware authentication key to pass a One Time Password (OTP) to the malicious site. This eventually succeeded, […] It’s interesting that it su
by sdfhbdf 4y ago
> […] use their hardware authentication key to pass a One Time Password (OTP) to the malicious site. This eventually succeeded, […]
It’s interesting that it succeeded, I was under the impression, making some assumptions that using a Hardware key like Yubikey would prevent such attack since the challenge-response in the browser communication with the key contains the domain (which I assume was different) and hence would fail to generate proper OTP for wrong domain.
I assume they, or their vendor - CircleCI (which i haven’t used), had some older implementation of the standard that maybe relied just on the string generated by the hardware key without challenge-response.
I’m glad they caught it and they immediately see WebAuthn as a good successor. This should definitely prevent such attack vector. Nice.
- jaywalk 4y agoI have to assume by "hardware authentication key" they're referring to RSA SecurID. Yubikey would indeed prevent an attack like this from working. Although I wouldn't expect a company like Dropbox to be using RSA SecurID.
- jsty 4y ago> Yubikey would indeed prevent an attack like this from working. It would using U2F / WebAuthn. Some Yubikeys support generating TOTP codes [0], which would be vulnerable to phishing attacks [0] https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013789259-Using-Your-YubiKey-with-Authenticator-Codes https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013789259-Us...