This fake LastPass Authenticator app will just shut off your antivirus and leave you open to attack

In Consumer Alerts
September 22, 2026

If you use LastPass as your password manager, you should read a post by TechRadar that begins:

Be careful when downloading the LastPass Authenticator app – there are impostors out there that can disable your antivirus and wreak havoc on your computer.

LastPass recently discovered an elaborate scheme to get people infected with malware – a spoofed website, SEO poisoning, DLL sideloading, and a malware loader delivering never-before-seen payload that can kill endpoint protection and antivirus solutions.

According to the password manager, users searching for “LastPass Authenticator download” or similar keywords will get a GitHub page rather high on the search engine results pages. At a glance, the page looks almost identical to the authentic LastPass offering – however, it redirects users to a separate one, hosted on attacker-controlled infrastructure and delivering a large .ZIP file with multiple files.

Read more of their caution at TechRadar.