Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based non-profit collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists, secures its high-stakes investigative work using Yubico’s YubiKey 5C NFC. Supporting protocols like FIDO U2F, Yubico helps Bellingcat achieve faster authentication, reduce account lockouts and password resets, and successfully thwart highly targeted phishing attacks. Through the Secure It Forward Program, Yubico provides reliable, phishing-resistant hardware keys that protect Bellingcat’s contributors worldwide, strengthening security for critical open-source research and journalism efforts.

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