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Phishing attacks are everywhere, and most of us can spot the obvious ones. Even if someone falls for one and hands over their password, two-factor authentication (2FA) usually adds a crucial layer of ...

Update, Dec. 03, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 02, now updated to reflect the 2FA-bypass security threat beyond Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The busiest period of online shopping, ...

The platform warns users of on-premises versions to upgrade to the latest versions; SaaS and web versions have been patched.

Fraudulent Facebook messages allege copyright infringement and threaten to take down pages, unless users enter logins, passwords and 2FA codes. Scammers have hatched a new way to attempt to bypass two ...

Security researchers have discovered a major security flaw in cPanel, a popular software suite used by web hosting companies to manage websites for their customers. The bug, discovered by security ...

A bug-bounty hunter found an issue in Meta's Instagram API endpoints that could allow a threat actor to launch brute-force attacks and bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) on Facebook. The ...

A Chinese hacking group believed to operate on behalf of the Beijing government has learned how to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) in attacks on government and industry targets, ZDNet reported ...