• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I mean if you’re on GSuite, fundamentally isn’t a loss of control of your personal Gmail account just as likely as a loss of control of your professional account?

    It does show how browsers offering cloud-synched password vaults without mandating 2FA to use that feature is grossly irresponsible.

    2FA is, in my experience, the thing that would be blocking 99% of this kind of attack. Which shows how if you’re regularly using something that doesnt have 2FA that should be a red flag. In this case it was 2 layers of that:

    Their google account probably didn’t have 2FA, and neither did that service account. Now obviously a service account generally won’t have 2FA, but if you’re regularly keying in service account credentials into a web browser something has gone wrong.

    • HoornseBakfiets@feddit.nl
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      8 months ago
      1. Not necessarily 2fa only secures you from direct attacks to the google login, but attackers can gain access another way: session cookie stealing.
      2. 2fa only really exists because people aren’t using better & unique passwords