Threat Post

Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API

Researcher uses an old unCAPTCHA trick against latest the audio version of reCAPTCHA, with a 97 percent success rate. An old attack method dating back to 2017 that uses voice-to-text to bypass CAPTCHA ...

No more data collection frenzy: Google makes reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant

By switching to order processing, Google relinquishes data sovereignty to website operators and responds to growing ...
Threat Post

Fake Google reCAPTCHA Phishing Attack Swipes Office 365 Passwords

A phishing attack targeting Microsoft users leverages a bogus Google reCAPTCHA system. Microsoft users are being targeted with thousands of phishing emails, in an ongoing attack aiming to steal their ...
Fast Company

Suspicious of Google’s reCaptcha? Here’s a popular alternative

In the fall of 2018, Google released a new version of reCaptcha, the company’s widely used bot detector. reCaptcha v3, as its called, is great at detecting bots but it has a dark side, as researchers ...
AOL

Exclusive: Google launching reCAPTCHA for payments – and here's the deal with the annoying boxes

Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google is expanding the availability of reCAPTCHA, and the verification technology will now be able to, for the first time, protect payments. Jess Leroy, Google senior ...
Bleeping Computer

Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues

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 ...
Android

'Are You Human?' How Google's reCAPTCHA Secretly Harvests Your Data

Are you a bot that’s currently reading our website? If you aren’t, please verify your human status by solving a series of puzzles. That’s a scenario that most of us are familiar with. We go to a ...