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Comment by kccqzy

8 days ago

> Literally number one attack vector.

That’s an out-of-date view. The number one attack vector these days is cookie stealing. The prevalence of 2FA even weak ones like SMS-based 2FA has made plain old phishing so much less effective.

That's not correct - more than 1/3 of initial access is by phishing at present, according to Cisco Talos (and others major security publications largely agree with this). Ref: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/ir-trends-q1-2026/

What you may be confusing with is the number of incidents involving token theft, which is often facilitated by phishing.

  • That publication is talking about phishing as a threat to workers inside corporations and government agencies and public administrations. It’s not a thing for regular consumers. Passkeys aren’t usually used in corporate environments with an IT department anyways.