Understanding MFA Bypass Techniques and How to Prevent Them
Multi-factor authentication dramatically improves security over password-only authentication. The assumption that MFA makes accounts invulnerable, however, proves dangerously incorrect. Attackers have developed numerous techniques to bypass MFA protection. Social engineering remains remarkably effective against MFA. Attackers call help desks pretending to be legitimate users who lost their phones. With enough background information about the target,…
