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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
2024-07-24 06:33

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers...

Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues
2024-05-03 17:07

Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and Reddit.

Fake Google reCAPTCHA Phishing Attack Swipes Office 365 Passwords
2021-03-08 17:04

Microsoft users are being targeted with thousands of phishing emails, in an ongoing attack aiming to steal their Office 365 credentials. The attackers add an air of legitimacy to the campaign by leveraging a fake Google reCAPTCHA system and top-level domain landing pages that include the logos of victims' companies.

Google Speech-to-Text API Can Help Attackers Easily Bypass Google reCAPTCHA
2021-01-05 21:55

A three-year-old attack technique to bypass Google's audio reCAPTCHA by using its own Speech-to-Text API has been found to still work with 97% accuracy. ReCAPTCHA is a popular version of the CAPTCHA technology that was acquired by Google in 2009.

Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API
2021-01-04 21:45

ReCaptcha is Google's name for its own technology and free service that uses image, audio or text challenges to verify that a human is signing into an account. Google recently started charging for larger reCAPTCHA accounts.

Old Attack Method Against Google's Audio-Based reCAPTCHA Resurrected
2021-01-04 13:36

An attack method discovered in 2017 for defeating the audio version of Google's reCAPTCHA system using speech-to-text services has once again been resurrected. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland showed in 2017 that online speech-to-text services could be used to automatically solve reCAPTCHA v2 audio challenges with a high degree of accuracy.

Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use
2020-11-02 08:15

Google insists it doesn't use reCAPTCHA data for personalized adverts, and says as much in the reCAPTCHA terms of service. Google's reCAPTCHA terms of service state that the service sends device and application data to the company.

Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use
2020-11-02 08:15

Google insists it doesn't use reCAPTCHA data for personalized adverts, and says as much in the reCAPTCHA terms of service. Google's reCAPTCHA terms of service state that the service sends device and application data to the company.

Surge in phishing attacks using legitimate reCAPTCHA walls
2020-05-01 04:00

Cyber scammers are starting to use legitimate reCAPTCHA walls to disguise malicious content from email security systems, Barracuda Networks has observed. The reCAPTCHA walls prevent email security systems from blocking phishing attacks and make the phishing site more believable in the eyes of the user.

Cloudflare Axes Google reCAPTCHA Due to Privacy, Price
2020-04-09 20:42

Cloudflare is nixing Google's reCAPTCHA tool and replacing it with what the network services company's CEO calls "a better CAPTCHA" service, hCaptcha. Cloudflare said the main driver for the swap was that Google is now charging for use of its reCAPTCHA tool - but customer privacy and availability were other factors.