CAPTCHA-Breaking Services with Human Solvers Helping Cybercriminals Defeat Security

[MuzzMelbourne]

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/captcha-breaking-services-with-human.html

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.

"These CAPTCHA-solving services don't use [optical character recognition] techniques or advanced machine learning methods; instead, they break CAPTCHAs by farming out CAPTCHA-breaking tasks to actual human solvers."

CAPTCHA – short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – is a tool for differentiating real human users from automated users with the goal of combating spam and restricting fake account creation.

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[Zero Knowledge]

Never ending arms race. People use bots to game the system> Companies use captchas and other tech to stop it> People pay humans to pass captchas.

Bots are a huge problem in ecommerce and fuel the reseller markets in particular eBay. They have basically ruined buying everything from PS5's/XBOX's to designer/consumer shoes to clothes.

It's really sad that these huge multinationals secretly approve of such bot practices, and the worst thing is the companies don't do anything to stop them but claim they do with a straight face.