This week in tech news | 17th September 2022

1.Ethereum Merge successfully implemented on 15th September

With this merge, Eth will move from Proof-of-work to Proof-of-stake which will reduce the chain's energy consumption by 99% and also reduce the miner's income significantly. What next? Ethereum plans to introduce sharding by 2023 in order to improve its scalability and capacity.

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2.New EvilProxy Phishing Service Allowing Cybercriminals to Bypass 2-Factor Authentication

A Phishing-as-a-service tool is being used in dark web to bypass 2FA. The attacker can bypass 2FA by making a user click on a clone of service's login page and intercepting a user's cookie by calling the service provider's API directly.

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