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Analysis: Uber Hack Highlights How Threat Actors Exploit “MFA Fatigue”

The latest cyberattack on Uber is a reminder that hackers are exploiting a lack of attentiveness to potentially dangerous push notifications for multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the personal devices of workers. Researchers are calling it "MFA fatigue" and the internal network of any company, small and large, is vulnerable if the login credentials of even a single employee or contractor are obtained by cybercriminals via social engineering and a bombardment of fraudulent push notifications.

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