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New Attack Could Let Hackers Clone Your Google Titan 2FA Security Keys

A new research demonstrates how an adversary in possession of such a two-factor authentication (2FA) device can clone it by exploiting an electromagnetic side-channel in the chip embedded in it. The vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-3011) allows the bad actor to extract the encryption key or the ECDSA private key linked to a victim’s account from a FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) device like Google Titan Key or YubiKey.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/new-attack-could-let-hackers-clone-your.html

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