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You can MITM OTP, but you can't MITM U2F. You can copy/steal the OTP secret from a phone app, but you can't copy/steal the U2F private key from a Yubikey (easily).



With Push MFA it's even easier, the sequence goes like this:

Crooks know Barry's password but Push MFA is needed to sign into his account and conduct some crime

Crooks somehow get Barry to go to a site they control believing it is for Work [there are a lot of ways to do this step, links in email, hijacking forgotten subdomains, typo squatting, the list goes on]

The site says "Hi Barry, we need to do Push MFA"

Crooks sign into Barry's real account with the password, causing a Push MFA to happen.

Barry was expecting Push MFA because the bogus site prompted saying it would happen so OKs it.

Crooks have now successfully passed the MFA


Oh crap, thanks for the heads up!


Sorry man, I wasn't sure how to tell you :D




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