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submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How would that help in this case? "Sir, please accept the pop up from our app"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm talking about TOTP in something like Bitwarden or Authy. You can still social engineer your way to getting a code, but a scammer would have to convince the user to reveal that secret, not just pretend to send a code.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    It sounds like in the above case the codes were real 2fa codes from his bank as the scammers were resetting their login credentials then adding an external account to initiate a transfer. Presumably they were simply reusing info from a breach to make the scam smoother

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