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Keeping Data Secure for Taxpayers and Professionals

Dec 21, 2022 · 21 min read

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Recently, cyber threat actors are attempting to get around multifactor authentication (MFA) by using a technique known as MFA bombardment or MFA abuse. In this attack, the threat actor uses stolen credentials (gained from a phishing attack or purchased illicitly online) and then spams a user with MFA push notifications (prompts sent to a mobile phone where a user only has to press a button to grant access) to get the user to accept just one of the requests.

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