Authy Users' Phone Numbers Compromised via Twilio API Vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
from kid@sh.itjust.works to cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 2024 18:15
https://sh.itjust.works/post/21737138

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clb92@feddit.dk on 03 Jul 2024 18:18 next collapse

Goddammit, can companies stop leaking our shit everywhere please

henfredemars@infosec.pub on 03 Jul 2024 18:29 next collapse

Only when it’s profitable to stop.

sanpo@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jul 2024 18:39 collapse

I’d prefer fuck-you-fines making it impossible to ignore the security that are actually enforced.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net on 03 Jul 2024 18:51 collapse

And that’s why its important to prefer internet services hosted in particular companies. The English legacy of law has been very poor at keeping society safe from corporations because these laws were established when the British Empire was a vast trade corporation with an inbred person as CEO by way of the pope said Jesus wanted that family to be in charge.

What’s crazy making is a lot of the places the British destabilized the indigenous people had very advanced methods of ensuring society benefited everyone. Not all of them of course, but enough of them that its hard to see the English legacy of law practice as anything other than fundamentally broken and not worth the amount of spread it was forced to have at gunpoint. Like when I hear about how Iroquois nation justice worked I can’t help but feel something truly special was lost by way of colonists wanted to profit off beaver pelts

Norgur@fedia.io on 03 Jul 2024 19:52 collapse

Especially with such careless failures. If some employee was tricked through a well-planned social engineering attack, or they used some mega obscure day0 vulnerability, I'd not be happy, but shit happens, I guess.
But not sending my phone number when someone just posts some GET command to an API should be a no-brainer....

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business on 03 Jul 2024 18:34 next collapse

What confuses me is even a half-competent audit and pentest would absolutely have found an api endpoint that’s going to absolutely leak customer data, so the assumption I have to make is that, yet again, a “security” company can’t be fucked to do the bare minimum to ensure their security shit is you know, secure.

LordKitsuna@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 2024 04:18 collapse

Posting this against your comment for visibility, I would recommend anyone that was using authy switch to bitwarden’s dedicated 2F authentication app. The company maintains several security compliance certificates and fairly regularly gets audited which they post publicly at bitwarden.com/help/is-bitwarden-audited/

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business on 04 Jul 2024 15:22 collapse

Oh neat. I use their password manager but totally somehow missed them releasing a separate 2fa app.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 03 Jul 2024 18:40 next collapse

That’s especially bad, because the default behavior, iirc, is to have Multi-Device turned on, which means anyone can potentially add their device to your account and access your TOTP.

And I don’t expect most users to know how or to remember to turn it off.

uhh_matt@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 2024 18:43 next collapse

We have taken action to secure this endpoint

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a0aedf78-f13b-4fc7-998e-a3abcc5c8803.png">

user@lemmy.one on 03 Jul 2024 18:50 next collapse

Oof, lucky I left them for aegis, android only app a long time ago. I hope/think I closed my authy account 🤞

Quill7513@slrpnk.net on 03 Jul 2024 18:55 next collapse

Let this be a reminder not to use Authy or Google Auth or Microsoft Auth if you can help it. Your best bet if you can help it is a Yubikey or Nitrokey. If you can’t far better to go with Aegis or Ente Auth. If you need easy sync across devices, Aegis has that, but most of the security experts I know recommend going with 1Password as your MFA solution with sync. I personally don’t trust 1Password as a for profit corporation, but I also accept I don’t get paid to know about computer security to the degree that an actual security expert is

LordKitsuna@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 2024 04:19 collapse

I’d recommend bitwarden’s dedicated 2F authentication app. The company is regularly audited and they post the results at bitwarden.com/help/is-bitwarden-audited/

Th4tGuyII@fedia.io on 03 Jul 2024 18:51 next collapse

Thank fuck I got away from Authy years ago - cost me my Twitch account (because apparently Twitch straight won't allow you to switch away from Authy), but it was worth it to secure the rest of my things

Rentlar@lemmy.ca on 03 Jul 2024 19:16 next collapse

Lol it’s taken me a while to come around to MFA (I used to hate it but I’ve started using open source MFA apps), but my hesitation to use proprietary solutions has proved smart.

Grumpydaddy@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 2024 22:33 next collapse

So for common folk like myself, what do I need to do? I used Authy for a few sites. Can a bad actor pretending to be me now get access to those sites?

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 03 Jul 2024 23:03 collapse

I swapped to aegis from authy

scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jul 2024 01:58 next collapse

FUCK ME DEAD

I got so much shit to reset up now, and I’ve closen aegis.

LordKitsuna@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 2024 04:15 collapse

Bitwarden has a dedicated 2a app now. Highly recommend you go with that

scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jul 2024 11:40 collapse

I was considering an email host that did include bitwarden, any reason I should or shouldn’t go for it.

AVincentInSpace@pawb.social on 04 Jul 2024 03:37 next collapse

good thing I stopped using Authy a while ago

telep@lemmy.ml on 04 Jul 2024 04:26 next collapse

common aegis W

MintyAnt@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 2024 12:21 next collapse

Thanks Twilio!

Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 2024 01:01 collapse

Oh man this is going to suck.

We were looking for an authentication setup to allow for SSO and one of the front runners was Twilio. They have a meeting with us next week and I am not looking forward to this second hand embarrassment.