Phishing-resistant MFA is a login setup that is hard to trick with a fake website or a stolen code. The point is not just to add a second step. It is to make that second step useless to an attacker who is trying to copy your login.
CISA says the widely available phishing-resistant approach is FIDO/WebAuthn authentication. In plain English, that usually means a passkey or a physical security key. Those methods are tied to the real site and the real device, which makes them much harder to steal than a text code or a push prompt.
Why it matters is simple: most account takeovers start with someone handing over a password or one-time code to the wrong place. Phishing-resistant MFA closes that hole better than basic MFA, so if an account offers it, that is the version to choose.
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