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Report: New Android malware can steal 2FA codes from Google Authenticator

Android Authority – 27 Feb 20

Report: New Android malware can steal 2FA codes from Google Authenticator

2FA apps are one of the best ways to secure your accounts, but a new form of malware poses a significant threat.

This is a nasty one - once it gets on your system it will relay 2FA codes allowing hackers to break into your other systems.

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I was told 2FA was hackproof though.

The only thing that’s really hackproof is a one-time pad:

en.wikipedia.org

One-time pad

In cryptography, the one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a one-time pre-shared key the same size as, or longer than, the message being sent. In this technique, a plaintext is paired with a random secret key (also referred to as a one-time pad). Then, each bit or character of the plaintext is encrypted by combining it with the corresponding bit or character from the pad using modular addition. If the key is (1) truly random, (2) at least as...

And Apple products, right?

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