Security News > 2021 > April > Want to get around a CAPTCHA? That’ll be 0.00094c, please

CAPTCHA farms have been around for over a decade, pretty much since CAPTCHAs first became a way to protect against bots.

CAPTCHA requests will be sent from the bot to the farm through an API, and at the other end a human will be available to solve the test.

Bot operators buy these services at around $0.94 for every 1,000 solved.

The end result is that bot operators can see CAPTCHA as more of a speed bump than a barrier to achieving their aim.

As bots get more sophisticated, so do the techniques to identify and prevent bot attacks.

At the same time, businesses will rely on CAPTCHA to try and block bots - but when this becomes too much for bots to handle, outsourced labor will solve the problem.

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