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@Asrover Asrover released this 09 Nov 06:55
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Warnings on look-alike sites

Fake sign-in pages copy the real one and pass whatever you type, the 2FA code
included, straight on to the real site. A code can't tell where it is being
typed. The extension can: it knows the page's address and where each account
has been used.

  • Before a code goes to a page whose address imitates the account's site,
    the extension asks.
    That covers copying it from the list, picking it when
    right-click → Insert 2FA code asks which account, and the ⌘⇧2 palette
    in the Mac app. It covers addresses with look-alike letters (g1thub.com, a
    Cyrillic і, rnicrosoft.com), a single typo (githuh.com), the name plus
    a phishing word (github-login.com, secure-paypal.com), and the real
    address worn as a subdomain (github.com.verify-session.xyz).
  • Built to stay quiet. It only speaks up when an address imitates a name
    the account already carries: its issuer, a website you tied to it, or a site
    you inserted its code on. A page that is just a different site, the
    service's own other domains (microsoftonline.com, steamcommunity.com,
    amazon.de) and a list of well-known real services never trigger it.
    It's the real site is remembered for that account, and the whole thing
    can be switched off in Settings → Warn about look-alike sites.
  • When the warning appears in the Mac palette, a yes copies the code instead
    of typing it.

Security

  • Insert 2FA code no longer types a code into a site that only contains
    the service's name.
    The site's name was matched against the account's
    issuer as a bare substring in both directions, so with one GitHub account in
    the list, right-click → Insert 2FA code on hub.xyz filled in the GitHub
    code without asking; box.com got Dropbox's, lab.io GitLab's. The name now
    has to be whole words of the issuer or the account name. And a name match no
    longer fills on another domain when the account has only ever been used
    elsewhere (github.co for an account used on github.com): it asks once
    and remembers. Reported by kta1kri. Thank you.

The Chrome Web Store update follows after review; until then the store may
still offer 1.16.0.