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‘Adversary in the middle attacks’ are becoming hackers’ go-to method to bypass MFA
Microsoft has announced it has taken legal action to disrupt over 240 fraudulent websites owned by an Egypt-based cyber crime group, noting the tactics deployed in the DIY phishing operation reflect a broader shift in the industry. The firm published a blog revealing its Digital Crimes Units (DCU) had disrupted the pages associated with Abanoub Nady, known online as MRxC0DER,…
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Google Cloud will make MFA mandatory by the end of 2025 – here’s what you need to know
Google Cloud has set out its plan to raise the bar on cyber resilience and make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all Cloud users around the world by the end of 2025. The roll-out will follow three stages aimed at ushering Google Cloud customers into a new era of improved security, the company said. Mayank Upadhyay, VP of engineering and…
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Google Cloud to make MFA mandatory by the end of 2025
Google has announced that multi-factor authentication (MFA) will be mandatory on all Cloud accounts by the end of 2025 to enhance security. Google Cloud is a product designed for businesses, developers, and IT teams to build, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure in the cloud. The mandatory MFA rollout will affect both admins and any users with access to Google…
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Microsoft Entra “security defaults” to make MFA setup mandatory
Microsoft says it will improve security across Entra tenants where security defaults are enabled by making multifactor authentication (MFA) registration mandatory. This move is part of the company’s Secure Future Initiative, launched in November 2023, to boost cybersecurity protection across its products. “We’re removing the option to skip multifactor authentication (MFA) registration for 14 days when security defaults are enabled.…
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A cyber criminal group behind an MFA bypass operation promised hackers “profit within minutes” – they’re now facing lengthy jail sentences
Three men have pleaded guilty in a UK court after operating a website assisting cyber criminals to bypass multi-factor authentication. The group, composed of Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan, Callum Picari, and Aza Siddeeque, ran the OTP[.]Agency site between September 2019 and March 2021, when the page was shut down. During this period, the NCA suggested the trio could have made as much…
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Admins of MFA bypass service plead guilty to fraud
Three men have pleaded guilty to running OTP.Agency, an online platform that provided social engineering help to obtain one-time passcodes from customers of various banks and services in the U.K. The codes – temporary passwords also known as OTPs, were part of multi-factor authentication protections and criminals subscribing to the illegal service could use them to access a victim’s bank account and…
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Enable MFA or lose access to admin portals in October
Microsoft warned Entra global admins on Thursday to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their tenants until October 15 to ensure users don’t lose access to admin portals. This is part of Redmond’s recently announced Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and it aims to ensure that Azure accounts are protected against phishing and hijacking attempts by enforcing mandatory MFA for all Azure…
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