{"id":164897,"date":"2023-05-31T22:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/captcha-breaking-services-with-human-solvers-helping-cybercriminals-defeat-security"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:25:37","slug":"captcha-breaking-services-with-human-solvers-helping-cybercriminals-defeat-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/captcha-breaking-services-with-human-solvers-helping-cybercriminals-defeat-security","title":{"rendered":"CAPTCHA-Breaking Services with Human Solvers Helping Cybercriminals Defeat Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/captcha-breaking-services-with-human-solvers-helping-cybercriminals-defeat-security.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause cybercriminals are keen on breaking CAPTCHAs accurately, several services that are primarily geared toward this market demand have been created,\u201d Trend Micro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_us\/research\/23\/e\/abusing-web-services-using-automated-captcha-breaking-services-and-residential-proxies.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report published last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese CAPTCHA-solving services don\u2019t use [optical character recognition] techniques or advanced machine learning methods; instead, they break CAPTCHAs by farming out CAPTCHA-breaking tasks to actual human solvers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cBecause cybercriminals are keen on breaking CAPTCHAs accurately, several services that are primarily geared toward this market demand have been created,\u201d Trend Micro said in a report published last week. \u201cThese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}