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This is pretty risky given how lax sone places are with allowing customer service to be talked into removing 2fa.

• 8organicbits 3y ago
  I've seen platforms that don't rate limit 2fa guesses. A six digit OTP has only a million possible values. Guessing once per second it only takes a couple days to guess. This is also why a platform should never confirm that a password is correct when 2FA is enabled, only confirm if both have been solved.
  • pintxo 3y ago
    2FA is usually time limited? So this seems not to be an issue?
    • rhysmdnz 3y ago
      Because of fun probability stuff. The fact what your guessing changes doesn’t matter. It’s still a day to get a correct guess. https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/totp-bruting https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/totp-bruting
    • 8organicbits 3y ago
      Think about a time-based one-time passcode (OTP). Every 30 seconds you get a fresh code and the attacker tries to guess that code. There's usually a validity window of one or more OTP, so the attacker needs to guess one of several possible currently valid OTP. This is a popular trick in CTF exercises and it's pretty quick if you can make 1000 guesses per second. Takes a couple minutes until you're in.