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Fake CAPTCHA Scams
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Bruce Schneier examines fake CAPTCHA scams that abuse human-verification prompts as social engineering lures against users.
Bruce Schneier's blog post covers fake CAPTCHA scams, a social engineering technique in which attackers pose as CAPTCHA verification checks to manipulate users. The available page text is largely site navigation, and no specific campaign, victim, or malware family is named in the source.
Key facts
- Fake CAPTCHA prompts are used as social engineering lures
- No specific campaign, victim, or malware named in the source text
- Organizations
- Schneier on Security
From the original article
1 min read at schneier.comNew variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.
By Bruce Schneier · schneier.com
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