Re: [Full-disclosure] Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers

2008-07-03 Thread Ureleet
didnt this happen like 6 months ago too?  come on!  it'll be a tail
chase, the vendors will improve the catcha, the spammers will break
it, they'll improve it..  etc..  its never ending bullshit.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Dancho Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend
> for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services,
> and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and
> malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus
> accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. This post intends to
> make this official, by covering an underground service offering
> thousands of already registered Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts for
> sale, with new ones registered every second clearly indicating the
> success rate of their CAPTCHA breaking capabilities at these services
> :
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1418
>
> Regards
> --
> Dancho Danchev
> Cyber Threats Analyst/Blogger
> http://ddanchev.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security
> http://windowsecurity.com/Dancho_Danchev
>
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[Full-disclosure] Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers

2008-07-03 Thread Dancho Danchev
Hello,

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend
for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services,
and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and
malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus
accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. This post intends to
make this official, by covering an underground service offering
thousands of already registered Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts for
sale, with new ones registered every second clearly indicating the
success rate of their CAPTCHA breaking capabilities at these services
:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1418

Regards
-- 
Dancho Danchev
Cyber Threats Analyst/Blogger
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security
http://windowsecurity.com/Dancho_Danchev

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