Trying to find this recent article: T a social engineer had started an account recovery thing with Apple, then called the victim claiming to be from apple, and walked the victim through handing over their account...
Gone (Almost) Phishin’

This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, an…

Matt Mullenweg

@Luxano and @adamshostack : this attack also more or less resembles what Terence Eden (@Edent IIRC) described in https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/ : a Man-in-the-Middle attack targeting Chase customers.

And it's interesting to read @briankrebs 's writeup in https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/ - thanks for sharing!

#Phishing #MitM #AitM #InfoSec

@ErikvanStraten @Luxano @Edent @briankrebs Is this fair advice:

Analysis of swim lane diagrams are a good way to find these switch-overs. For each message, ask “What happens if there’s an extra party here?”

@adamshostack : that may depend on your audience, not everyone will be familiar with swimlanes.

In 2024 I tried to explain "The Chase Case" to Dutch people interested in infosec in https://security.nl/posting/842742 (I can't upload images there and that site is rather unfriendly for mobile browsers, so I try to restrict the width - which is often hard in case of "ASCII art swimlanes").

Note that the Dutch word "stap" means "step" and "Jan" is a very common first name for Dutch men.

English explanation in the Alt text.

Edited to add: the problem at hand is missing channel binding.

@Luxano @Edent @briankrebs

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