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Research noteSC-2026-0298

Push fatigue is a process failure, not a user failure

Blaming the employee who approved the tenth prompt misses where the design went wrong.

SeverityHigh

5 minEnterprise CyberSec

Repeated approval prompts train people to approve. Number matching and origin binding remove the ambiguity that makes the attack work, and both have been available for years.

Organisations that still run plain push notifications are carrying a known, documented risk for the sake of a slightly smoother login.

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