In the case of 2FA Authenticator, the malicious app was caught relatively early on thanks to those suspicious permissions, and removed from the Play store by Google.

The app outwardly functioned just as a reasonable user might expect it to — but 2FA Authenticator was a wolf in sheep's clothing, as the dangerous software was essentially hidden inside a shell ...

2FA app with 10,000 Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojan 2FA Authenticator offered real 2FA functionality, but it came with strings attached.

The team at Pradeo reported that while the researchers submitted their disclosure to Google Play, nevertheless the malicious 2FA Authenticator app loaded with the banking trojan remained available ...

A fake 2FA authenticator was found to be downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play. The app was known to install a banking-fraud trojan that looks for financial data and other personal information ...

If you don’t see the option to use an authenticator app, it’s worth reaching out to your bank or service provider for more information. Some 2FA apps, like Authy, also offer cloud backup features.

The Google Authenticator app used to store one-time access codes for account security now supports backups and syncing across devices using a Google Account, Google announced today. With Google ...

An update to Google Authenticator this week finally enabled backups for your two-factor authentication codes. But the feature comes with a security risk.

The Google Authenticator app has received a critical update for Android and iOS that allows users to back up their two-factor authentication one-time passwords (OTPs) to their Google Accounts and ...

Google Authenticator 7.0 brings a Material You redesign and new features, while changing how you copy 2-factor authentication (2FA) codes.

The latest update to the Google Authenticator doesn’t show the 2FA codes spontaneously and now waits for the user’s tap to reveal the codes.