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Trojan Tricks Users into Reading Captchas
Submitted By: 
nanana
, made popular 21 days ago
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| Trend Micro and Panda Software report a trojan which persuades users to read captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart). The trojan known as RompeCaptchas.A, Captchar or Captcha Breaker then abuses its victims as human character recognition routines and can thus operate without intricate OCR requiring considerable computing power of its own. The trojan communicates with a malicious server that also connects to some selected legitimate site that uses cap |
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Tags: captcha, trick, trojan, virus, web, worm
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