Bypassing 2FA with phishing and OTP bots

This report analyzes how cybercriminals use OTP bots and real-time phishing kits to bypass two-factor authentication through social engineering, illustrating bot features (voice spoofing, multilingual scripts, caller ID spoofing), subscription pricing, and admin panel-driven workflows to harvest OTPs and additional personal data. It outlines multi-stage phishing processes that capture credentials and prompt victims for OTPs in real time, and cites May 2024 telemetry showing 69,984 blocked visits to bank-phishing kit pages and 1,262 detected multi-purpose OTP-intercepting phishing pages. The paper concludes with user-focused mitigation guidance, emphasizing cautious link handling, domain verification, refusal to share OTPs over calls, and use of security solutions.