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Alarm as attackers turn to fake CAPTCHA to plant malware
HP notes that most users were lured to a fake CAPTCHA site through web advertising, search engine optimisation (SEO) hijacking, or redirects from other compromised websites.
The cyber landscape is witnessing a rising trend of social engineering campaigns that rely on fake authentication systems known as Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) to infect web browsers with malware, a new report has revealed - bringing a new focus to the ever-evolving attack schemes.
A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether a user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam. The test is often presented as a challenge that’s easy for humans but difficult for machines to solve.
