4 Ways Hackers use Social Engineering to Bypass MFA

This article outlines four common methods attackers use to bypass multi-factor authentication—adversary-in-the-middle phishing, MFA prompt bombing, social-engineering of service desks, and SIM swapping—illustrating each with documented incidents and known threat groups, and emphasizes that MFA is an important but not foolproof control so organizations must enforce strong password policies and layered defenses.