MFA-Bypass

An unspecified attacker conducted a sophisticated SIM swap and identity attack against a personal wireless account by employing social engineering (vishing) to steal an SMS-based One-Time Passcode and account PIN, facilitating session hijacking and unauthorized account modifications like mobile number cancellation, demonstrating critical weaknesses in point-in-time identity verification and the need for continuous risk assessment.

This brief identifies successful logins to the AWS Management Console by standard IAM users without Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). It focuses on the first observed occurrence within a 7-day history window for each user. An adversary who obtains a user's password can gain access if MFA is not enforced, representing a significant initial access vector. This event signals a critical posture gap that allows adversaries to achieve initial access using compromised credentials, leading to potential privilege escalation, data exfiltration, or resource deployment.

O-UNC-038 is conducting a multi-stage Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing operation that abuses legitimate SaaS platforms and recruiter identities to steal corporate Google Workspace credentials and bypass multi-factor authentication.

An attacker with elevated privileges abuses the Microsoft Entra ID Temporary Access Pass (TAP) feature to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA), gain unauthorized access to target user accounts, and establish persistence by registering new authentication methods.

Threat actors exploited CVE-2024-12802, a vulnerability in SonicWall Gen6 SSL-VPN appliances, to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) after brute-forcing VPN credentials, leading to the deployment of ransomware-related tools.

The Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, disrupted in March 2026, has resurged with consistent tactics, employing adversary-in-the-middle (AITM) techniques to bypass MFA and compromise email accounts through phishing campaigns, credential theft, and session cookie hijacking.

The Tycoon2FA Phishing-as-a-Service platform, used to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA), has resurged to pre-takedown levels of activity following a disruption effort in March 2026, maintaining its original tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for credential harvesting and cloud compromise.

Parse Server versions before 8.6.61 and versions 9.0.0 to 9.6.0-alpha.55 expose sensitive MFA credentials via the `/users/me` endpoint, allowing authenticated users to extract TOTP secrets and recovery codes.

An adversary may attempt to bypass MFA by bombarding a user with repeated authentication requests, potentially leading to unauthorized access and system compromise.

Detects anomalous Azure AD authentication activity characterized by a single user exceeding 8 authentication attempts, utilizing 3+ unique application IDs and 5+ unique user agents within a 5-minute window, potentially indicating MFA probing or account compromise.

An adversary attempts to compromise Okta accounts by brute-forcing device tokens to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and gain unauthorized access.