New phishing scam sees hackers bypass Steam Guard security

  • 17 April 2014
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Valve introduced Steam Guard back in 2011 -- an additional security measure that aims to protect users whose Steam accounts are compromised. However, a new phishing scam has seen hackers manage to bypass Steam Guard completely.

When you have Steam Guard activated on your Steam account, and you (or someone else) attempts to log in to your account from somewhere other than your regular computer, a code is sent to your email which must be entered before access can be gained.
 
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That's pretty scary.  I suspect as two factor authentication gets more used we'll see more and more social engineering attacks to try and get around it.

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