Passkeys Raise the Bar. Here's Where Attackers Can Still Get In.
Huntress, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
Huntress explains how attackers still target enrollment, recovery, endpoints and social engineering despite passkeys.
Huntress says passkeys are a major step forward in authentication, but protecting a credential is only part of protecting an account, since attackers can still target enrollment, account recovery, compromised endpoints, alternative authentication flows and social engineering.
The post explains passkey-themed phishing, in which attackers impersonate IT staff and use the passkey as bait rather than defeating it.
It shows how phishing-resistant authentication, identity and endpoint protection, awareness training and detection work together to close the gaps.