Authorities in the European Union (EU) say they have seen cases in which multi-factor authentication stopped ransomware groups from proceeding with their attacks. Marijn Schuurbiers, head of operations at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), said, “In certain investigations, we saw [the attackers] trying to access companies – but as soon as they would hit two-factor authentication in this process, they would immediately drop this victim and go to the next.” Ref https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-you-really-need-multi-factor-authentication-these-ransomware-hackers-gave-up-when-they-saw-it/
