Why MFA Fatigue Attacks Work
The failure is not that users are careless. It is that push approval asks a question the user has no way to answer correctly — and asks it dozens of times until they slip.
- mfa
- authentication
- social-engineering
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The failure is not that users are careless. It is that push approval asks a question the user has no way to answer correctly — and asks it dozens of times until they slip.
We spent a decade teaching everyone to be suspicious of their inbox. Attackers responded by picking up the phone — where nobody is watching, nobody was trained, and being helpful is literally in the job description.
Stop trying to sense whether an email “feels off”. A phishing message has five jobs it must do to work, and every one of them leaves a mark you can check in about eight seconds.