A fake two-factor-authentication app that has been downloaded some 10,000 times from Google Play surreptitiously installed a known banking-fraud trojan that scoured infected phones for financial data ...

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Last month, a cybersecurity firm discovered the first-ever Android malware that came with the capability to steal the 2FA (two-factor authentication) codes generated by the Google Authenticator app.

Earlier this week, Google updated its Authenticator app to enable the backup and syncing of 2FA codes across devices using a Google Account. Now an examination by Mysk security researchers has found ...

Authenticator apps auto-generate numerical codes to help secure your online accounts. These codes act as a form of 2-factor ...

Google’s 2FA app update lacks end-to-end encryption, researchers find Your email has been sent On April 25, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, who are known collectively on Twitter ...

The Vultur trojan steals bank credentials but asks for permissions to do far more damage down the line. After remaining available for more than two weeks, a malicious two-factor authentication (2FA) ...

Two-factor authentication can be compromised. First, a reminder that two-factor and multi-factor authentication are not necessarily made equal. 2FA uses exactly two factors to ver ...

The worst thing about Google Authenticator is when you enrol for 2FA at a site, half of them ask you to download/use google authenticator, as if it's the only one that is valid to work. The majority ...

If you’d like to be sure you’re the only one posting elaborately staged yet casual selfies to your Instagram feed, there’s now a powerful new option to help you keep your account safe. In late ...

The security firm Pradeo said that the fake app "surreptitiously" installed a popular trojan that looks for financial data and personal information on infected devices. The 2FA Authenticator went live ...