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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.
- November 05, 2024
- 03:07 PM
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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.
- October 30, 2024
- 03:18 PM
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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.
- September 02, 2024
- 01:46 PM
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Microsoft: 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.
- August 16, 2024
- 03:06 PM
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Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users
Twilio has finally killed off its Authy for Desktop application, forcibly logging users out of the desktop application.
- August 01, 2024
- 05:06 PM
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Hackers abused API to verify millions of Authy MFA phone numbers
Twilio has confirmed that an unsecured API endpoint allowed threat actors to verify the phone numbers of millions of Authy multi-factor authentication users, potentially making them vulnerable to SMS phishing and SIM swapping attacks.
- July 03, 2024
- 12:43 PM
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Scathing report on Medibank cyberattack highlights unenforced MFA
A scathing report by Australia's Information Commissioner details how misconfigurations and missed alerts allowed a hacker to breach Medibank and steal data from over 9 million people.
- June 18, 2024
- 01:25 PM
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- June 13, 2024
- 10:01 AM
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Microsoft to start enforcing Azure multi-factor authentication in July
Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources.
- May 17, 2024
- 02:53 PM
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Cisco Duo warns third-party data breach exposed SMS MFA logs
Cisco Duo's security team warns that hackers stole some customers' VoIP and SMS logs for multi-factor authentication (MFA) messages in a cyberattack on their telephony provider.
- April 15, 2024
- 10:52 AM
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What to do when receiving unprompted MFA OTP codes
Receiving an unprompted one-time passcode (OTP) sent as an email or text should be a cause for concern as it likely means your credentials have been stolen.
- December 17, 2023
- 11:06 AM
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Discord adds Security Key support for all users to enhance security
Discord has made security key multi-factor authentication (MFA) available for all accounts on the platform, bringing significant security and anti-phishing benefits to its 500+ million registered users.
- December 14, 2023
- 01:21 PM
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Microsoft Authenticator now blocks suspicious MFA alerts by default
Microsoft has introduced a new protective feature in the Authenticator app to block notifications that appear suspicious based on specific checks performed during the account login stage.
- November 07, 2023
- 10:40 AM
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Microsoft will roll out MFA-enforcing policies for admin portal access
Microsoft will roll out Conditional Access policies requiring multifactor authentication from administrators when signing into Microsoft admin portals such as Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365, Exchange, and Azure.
- November 06, 2023
- 03:00 PM
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Amazon to make MFA mandatory for 'root' AWS accounts by mid-2024
Amazon will require all privileged AWS (Amazon Web Services) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for stronger protection against account hijacks leading to data breaches, starting in mid-2024.
- October 05, 2023
- 01:06 PM
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Retool blames breach on Google Authenticator MFA cloud sync feature
Software company Retool says the accounts of 27 cloud customers were compromised following a targeted and multi-stage social engineering attack.
- September 15, 2023
- 03:15 PM
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W3LL phishing kit hijacks thousands of Microsoft 365 accounts, bypasses MFA
A threat actor known as W3LL developed a phishing kit that can bypass multi-factor authentication along with other tools that compromised more than 8,000 Microsoft 365 corporate accounts.
- September 06, 2023
- 06:33 AM
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Microsoft enforces number matching to fight MFA fatigue attacks
Microsoft has started enforcing number matching in Microsoft Authenticator push notifications to fend off multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks.
- May 08, 2023
- 12:25 PM
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Outlook app to get built-in Microsoft 365 MFA on Android, iOS
Microsoft will soon fast-track multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption for its Microsoft 365 cloud productivity platform by adding MFA capabilities to the Outlook email client.
- March 13, 2023
- 01:07 PM
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Bitwarden password vaults targeted in Google ads phishing attack
Bitwarden and other password managers are being targeted in Google ads phishing campaigns to steal users' password vault credentials.
- January 26, 2023
- 04:40 PM
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