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GUEST OPINION: Most of us are familiar with two-factor authentication, or 2FA, as an additional security measure when logging in to various sites such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and other popular websites and applications we use every day.

Android malware that sidesteps the measures introduced by Google in March, to restrict the use of SMS and Call Log permissions and thus prevent credential-stealing apps from abusing these permissions and bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication, has been discovered by Slovakian security firm ESET.