26 May 2026 - 12:41

Category: IT Fail

Our great MFA savior has fallen

Multi-factor authentication was supposed to save us all, but prompt bombing has ruined the dream. It turns out humans will click 'approve' just to stop the buzzing phone.

Our great MFA savior has fallen

Source: The Hacker News

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Severity: High Mood: Expected

The industry sold us Multi-factor authentication as the holy grail of identity security, but we forgot to account for human exhaustion. Now, attackers who already have your stolen credentials simply spam your phone with login approvals until you surrender and click 'yes' to make it stop. This self-inflicted wound affects every optimistic organization that thought a second factor solved all their security sins. If we want to survive this, we must accept that users will always find a way to let hackers in, and we had better start securing our primary credentials with actual diligence instead.

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