{"id":11870,"date":"2022-07-27T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T08:32:39","slug":"these-ransomware-hackers-gave-up-when-they-hit-multi-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/2022\/07\/these-ransomware-hackers-gave-up-when-they-hit-multi-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"These ransomware hackers gave up when they hit multi-factor authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ransomware-an-executive-guide-to-one-of-the-biggest-menaces-on-the-web\/\" rel=\"follow\">ransomware attack<\/a>\u00a0was prevented just because the intended victim was using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/better-than-the-best-password-how-to-use-2fa-to-improve-your-security\/\" rel=\"follow\">multi-factor authentication<\/a> (MFA) and the attackers decided it wasn&#8217;t worth the effort to attempt to bypass it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A\u00a0ransomware attack\u00a0was prevented just because the intended victim was using\u00a0multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the attackers decided it wasn&#8217;t worth the effort to attempt to bypass it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ivp-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11875,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions\/11875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivp.vub.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}