WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of WhatsApp account security features, including support for multiple passkeys to a single account to help users with both iOS and Android devices sign into their accounts using the phishing-resistant method. The tech giant said more than 1 billion people use a...

Malicious code in passkeys-react (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector cce50db3ac46a97bd27f546d029617582b37a2ead027509b0bea35370e47d2bd package.json declares a preinstall hook that runs index.js on npm install. The script collects hostname, username, home directory, DNS servers, curre...

New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA

Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed,...

Google’s synchronized passkeys can be stolen in ‘Pass‑ta‑key’ attacks

Passkeys were supposed to make stolen passwords a thing of the past. No password to phish, no secret to reuse, and no string of characters sitting in a database waiting to be leaked. Over time, it's thought that passkeys will replace passwords entirely. But what happens when malware steals the...

Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts

Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim's passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim's screen. Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome's Google Password Manager cloud authenticator, which i...

CVE-2025-71400

better-auth passkey versions before 1.4.0 contain an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the passkey deletion endpoint that allows authenticated users to delete arbitrary passkeys by ID. Attackers with valid sessions can submit crafted requests to the delete-passkey endpoint with...

CVE-2025-71400 better-auth passkey before 1.4.0 IDOR via delete-passkey

better-auth passkey versions before 1.4.0 contain an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the passkey deletion endpoint that allows authenticated users to delete arbitrary passkeys by ID. Attackers with valid sessions can submit crafted requests to the delete-passkey endpoint with...

CVE-2025-71400

better-auth passkey versions before 1.4.0 contain an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in the passkey deletion endpoint that allows authenticated users to delete arbitrary passkeys by ID. Attackers with valid sessions can submit crafted requests to the delete-passkey endpoint with...

CVE-2026-13862

An insufficient policy enforcement flaw was found in the Web Authentication Passkeys & Security Keys component of the Chromium browser. Upstream bugs: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=495897416...

The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026

For years, account takeover ATO followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood. That era is ending. Not because attackers...

EUVD-2026-40548

Insufficient policy enforcement in Web Authentication Passkeys & Security Keys in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed an attacker in a privileged network position to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. Chromium security severity: Medium...

CVE-2026-13862

Insufficient policy enforcement in Web Authentication Passkeys & Security Keys in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed an attacker in a privileged network position to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. Chromium security severity: Medium...

PT-2026-50521

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Hermes WebUI versions prior to 0.51.409 Description An authentication bypass exists in passkey registration endpoints. When HERMES WEBUI PASSKEY=1 is enabled and no credentials exist, unauthenticated remote attackers can register arbitrary...

eduMFA Passkeys: missing expiration flag may allow replay attacks and reuse of old challenges

Impact In eduMFA = 2.9.1 by adding validity information to the userless challenges. Workarounds No known workarounds besides disabling userless login altogether...

GHSA-J5RM-V3VH-VX94 eduMFA Passkeys: missing expiration flag may allow replay attacks and reuse of old challenges

Impact In eduMFA = 2.9.1 by adding validity information to the userless challenges. Workarounds No known workarounds besides disabling userless login altogether...

An Analysis of Attack Vectors against FIDO2 Authentication

Phishing attacks remain one of the most prevalent threats to online security, with the Anti-Phishing Working Group reporting over 890,000 attacks in Q3 2025 alone. Traditional password-based authentication is particularly vulnerable to such attacks, prompting the development of more secure...

Xenforo Authorization Issues Vulnerability (CNVD-2026-16832)

Xenforo is a forum software from Xenforo. XenForo suffers from an authorization issue vulnerability that originates from affecting Passkeys that have been added to a user's account, which can be exploited by an attacker to bypass the authentication process and take over the account of another web...

EUVD-2025-209152

XenForo before 2.3.7 contains a security issue affecting Passkeys that have been added to user accounts. An attacker may be able to compromise the security of Passkey-based authentication...

CVE-2025-71279

XenForo before 2.3.7 contains a security issue affecting Passkeys that have been added to user accounts. An attacker may be able to compromise the security of Passkey-based authentication...

CVE-2025-71279

XenForo before 2.3.7 contains a security issue affecting Passkeys that have been added to user accounts. An attacker may be able to compromise the security of Passkey-based authentication...