Stealing Bitcoins from online wallets with 2FA - page 4.

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Quote from: edynolan on September 19, 2017, 07:00:17 PM

that possibility is just a threat from them.
very difficult to penetrate 2FA because the code is often changed

If you read the whole article, you can read that it's possible there is a flaw and

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The flaws could allow hackers to listen to phone calls and intercept text messages on a potentially massive scale, despite the most advanced encryption used by cellular network operators.

I'm glad the penetration was done by experts and not from hackers so they can patch it.

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that possibility is just a threat from them.
very difficult to penetrate 2FA because the code is often changed

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I see people calling for 2FA as a safety mechanism for their accounts even tho there is a huge vulnerability in the mobile networks known for years now.
2FA just increases the complexity of the attack, it doesn't stop it at all. Here is an article from The Hacker News that came out today about using 2FA on Bitcoin online wallets like Coinbase, although they say that it isn't a vulnerability in Coinbase at all but in the mobile system design flaws instead.

https://thehackernews.com/2017/09/hacking-bitcoin-wallets.html

The conclusion here is that you shouldn't consider a mobile network safe.

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