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Phishing Scam Cloaks Malware With Fake Google reCAPTCHA

Phishing emails target a bank’s users with malware – and make their landing page look more legitimate with fake Google reCAPTCHAs. A recently-discovered phishing scam was found peddling malware, using ...
Bleeping Computer

Cloudflare drops Google's reCAPTCHA due to privacy concerns

Cloudflare announced that it has moved from Google's reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha, an independent alternative CAPTCHA provider focused on user privacy. CAPTCHAs (short for Completely Automated Public Turing ...
ZDNet

Fake Google reCAPTCHA used to hide Android banking malware

Researchers have documented a recent phishing campaign targeting online banking users which masquerades as Google in its attempt to steal valuable credentials. According to cybersecurity researchers ...
ZDNet

Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use

Internet web infrastructure company Cloudflare announced plans to drop support for Google's reCAPTCHA service and move to a new bot detection provider named hCaptcha. Cloudflare co-founder and CEO ...
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 ...
PC Magazine

Cloudflare Dumps Google's ReCAPTCHA Over Privacy Concerns, Costs

Google’s reCAPTCHA service, which tries to verify whether you’re a human or bot, is getting dropped from millions of websites due to cost and privacy concerns. The decision comes from Cloudflare, a ...