A new European initiative dubbed UnifiedAttestation aims to build a free and open-source alternative to Google’s Play Integrity checks. The initiative is backed by smartphone maker Volla, while other partners include /e/OS maker Murena and the team behind iodé OS. The feature will be distributed under an Apache 2.0 license.
That’s truly mind-blowing, and fraud must be rampant! I have accounts in several different banks in several different countries, both inside and outside of the EU, and I have never ever encountered a bank that would rely on SMS “authentication” for security, not even in the distant past when online banking was new.
Most large banks in my country still support 2FA via SMS, and it was a popular authentication method in the past. At least, in recent years, they are switching to Smart OTP, biometric authentication, etc., like with my bank, they switched to Smart OTP in around 2024. The government forced biometric authentication for all large money transfer transactions in 2024–2025.
However, it’s too late to stop scammers from scamming victims using the data they get.
That’s truly mind-blowing to me.
You are right.