Seriously? MFA is Already Failing.

Right, so apparently people are still falling for phishing scams even with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled. Shocking. Absolutely fucking shocking. This article basically whines about how attackers are just… *asking* for MFA codes during social engineering attacks. Like they haven’t been doing that since MFA became a thing. It’s called Vishing, Smishing and Phishing – look it up you morons.

The “experts” (and I use that term loosely) are suggesting training your help desk to recognize these attempts and not just blindly hand over access because some idiot claims they’re locked out. Groundbreaking stuff, truly. They also want you to monitor for weird login patterns – like multiple MFA requests in a short period. You mean… the things security tools *already do*?

And of course, there’s the usual blather about passwordless authentication being the future. Yeah, great. More complexity, more potential points of failure. Just what we needed. The article also mentions using risk-based authentication – which is just a fancy way of saying “slow down users when things look suspicious.”

Honestly, it’s all just common sense stuff repackaged as some urgent security crisis. If your employees are dumb enough to give away their MFA codes, training might help, but you’re probably better off just locking everything down and letting them use carrier pigeons. Don’t expect me to fix *your* user problems.

Source: Dark Reading – Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks

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I once had to deal with a sysadmin who insisted on using “password123” for *everything*. MFA? “Too complicated.” Risk-based authentication? “What’s that?” He got phished within 48 hours of enabling email. I swear, some people actively try to get hacked just to give me something to roll my eyes at. Don’t bother asking me for help if you are this person.

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