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Two-factor does not protect against phishing attempts.

The fake website can ask for two-factor input and man-in-the-middle proxy this to the attacked website. These techniques have been used by the phishers for the last decade or so. Asking more two-factor codes e.g. Once at login and once at withdrawal helps, but the impact is not significant and also brings down the overall UX.




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