Researchers uncover critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication, allowing attackers to gain access to user accounts such as Outlook emails, OneDrive files, Teams chat, and more

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https://gadgeteer.co.za/oasis-security-research-team-discovers-microsoft-azure-mfa-bypass-we-expect-more-from-an-enterprise-provider-though

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Oasis Security’s research team uncovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) implementation, allowing attackers to bypass it and gain unauthorized access to the user’s account, including Outlook emails, OneDrive files, Teams chats, Azure Cloud, and more. Microsoft has more than 400 million paid Office 365 seats, making the consequences of this vulnerability far-reaching.

The bypass was simple: it took around an hour to execute, required no user interaction and did not generate any notification or provide the account holder with any indication of trouble.

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maxprime@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
MS Auth has got to be the worst 2FA I’ve ever used.

My workplace has it set up where I have to input a second factor several times a day on each device. It’s agonizing.

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- narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Same here. I feel like having to enter it so many times isn’t just more annoying but also makes the users more susceptible to phishing attacks ad they’ll naturally pay less attention where they’re entering the 2FA code into when they do it so routinely.
  
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  - maxprime@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes totally.
    
    And why do I have to 2FA on my phone? It’s not 2F when it’s the same device.
    
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- ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  My biggest annoyance with that is that the prompt doesn’t tell you which application it’s asking for. Is it Outlook? Is it Teams? Is it OneDrive? Or something that shouldn’t be asking for 2fa?
  
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- ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That’s not an MS thing, that’s the way your admins configured it. There are methods for doing system wide, once every X hours authentication, but chances are they don’t know that or went overkill with the settings to “be more secure”
  
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- Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What 2FA do you prefer? I’ve been thinking of looking for an alternative
  
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N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Wait until an internal leak reveals how this was a self-backdoored/malware vulnerability.

I will probably get down voted for this comment (because conspiracy?) but in a few years we will see a lot a pikachu faced memes about it. Can’t wait to laugh my ass off.

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