Subj : This cybercrime group claims it can help hackers beat CAPTCHA loc
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Date : Tue Aug 27 2024 21:30:05

This cybercrime group claims it can help hackers beat CAPTCHA locks

Date:
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:14:00 +0000

Description:
CAPTCHA are a great way to filter out bots and malicious actors, but this 
group thinks it can beat them.

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Cybersecurity experts have reported discovering an threat actor selling 
CAPTCHA-solving services to its customers. 

Arkose Cyber Threat Intelligence Research (ACTIR) says the Greasy Opal group 
is allegedly based in the Czech Republic and has, in the past decade and a 
half, sold all kinds of software, both legitimate and illegal. However, it 
drew the attention of the researchers with the CAPTCHA-solving tool. 

CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers 
and Humans Apart. It's a type of challenge-response test used to determine 
whether the user is human or a bot. CAPTCHAs are designed to prevent 
automated software (bots) from doing things like creating accounts, sending 
email , accessing secure websites, and similar. If you opened at least one 
website in the last half a decade, you probably saw a CAPTCHA. It is usually 
a grid of up to nine images, in which the user is asked to select a few 
similar ones. There are different variants, though. "Notably fast" 

According to ACTIR, Greasy Opals tool is a notably easy, fast, and flexible 
tool for the automatic recognition of a wide array of CAPTCHAs. 

Greasy Opal positions its service as enhancing recognition velocity 
significantly (up to 10 times faster) and is therefore a replacement for 
competitive CAPTCHA-solving solutions, such as AntiGate, RuCaptcha, or 
DeCaptcher, the researchers said. 

The tools Greasy Opal offers are apparently bundled, and cost $70 to acquire. 
Furthermore, there is an additional $10 monthly subscription. Finally, those 
with deeper pockets can shell out an additional $100 to upgrade to the beta 
version and get the latest bells and whistles. 

A bundle that includes all of Greasy Opals tools costs $190, with the 
additional $10 subscription fee. The researchers believe Greasy Opal raked in 
at least $1.7 million last year. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/this-cybercrime-group-claims-it-can-hel
p-hackers-beat-captcha-locks


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