Daily Archives: October 2nd, 2009

Trojan Decodes Captchas Using Stolen Commercial Tools

By Andrew Brandt A new Trojan quietly circulating in the wild uses components from a commercial optical character recognition (OCR) application to decode captchas, those jumbled-text images meant to help a website discern human activity from automated bots. The OCR-using captcha breaking tool is just one component of the Trojan. Its main purpose appears to [...]

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