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UK trio pleads guilty to operating $10M MFA bypass biz

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2024-09-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Brandon Vigliarolo

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UK authorities say three men pleaded guilty to running OTP.agency, an underground service that sold MFA/OTP-stealing tools and social-engineering support to criminals targeting bank accounts; the operation reportedly targeted over 12,500 victims between 2019 and 2021 and may have generated up to £7.9 million before the site was taken down and the operators arrested.

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