MFA Best Practices 2026: From Basic to Phishing-Resistant Authentication
In 2022, Uber's systems were breached by an 18-year-old. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) was active, but the attackers flooded an employee's phone with push requests until they approved one, just to stop the annoyance. Authentication worked as designed, and the attacker got in. This is, in general terms, an MFA fatigue attack. Fast forward to Q1 2025. Rapid7 found that more than 56% of all compromises resulted from stolen credentials where no MFA was in place.