MFA - multi factor authentication - ostensibly protects email and other online accounts by requiring a one-time key as a counter signature to gain entry.
Cybercriminals bombard known good accounts with login attempts, triggering the same huge number of âplease enter this codeâ¦â messages to the account holder.
Once the victimâs patience runs thin the ââ¦or approve this loginâ is more likely to be fat fingered or just chosen intentionally to make the bombardment subside.
âIf I get one more MFA bombing this week imma throw this phone off a bridgeâ