Think You’re Safe? Here’s How Hackers Actually Break Into Your Accounts in 2025
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Summary
A report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has found that the majority of popular and active malware can now bypass multi-factor authentication, leaving no user safe.
Despite two-factor authentication often being considered one of the safest ways of protecting accounts, hackers are using several methods to side-step this.
One such method is SIM-swapping, where a victim’s phone number is transferred to the attacker, allowing them to receive the two-factor authentication code and gain access to the account.
The report found that every second malicious loader was designed to avoid antivirus detection in the first place, while another portion was designed to load other malware onto the victim’s device once it had been deployed.
Additionally, almost half of malicious files analysed were built using reliable developers’ tools, making them more difficult to spot.