CAPTCHA-Breaking Services with Human Solvers Helping Cybercriminals Defeat Security

stapp · May 31, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about CAPTCHA-breaking services that are being offered for sale to bypass systems designed to distinguish legitimate users from bot traffic.
"Because cybercriminals are keen on breaking CAPTCHAs accurately, several services that are primarily geared toward this market demand have been created," Trend Micro said in a report published last week.
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The illicit CAPTCHA-solving services work by funneling requests sent by customers and delegating them to their human solvers, who work out the solution and submit the results back to the users.
What's more, the entire workflow is rendered accessible to the bot operators by making it possible to transmit the CAPTCHA in real-time via API calls to the service provider, which then programmatically sends the answers.
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https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/captcha-breaking-services-with-human.html

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