The latest phase of FIFA's ticket lottery for the 2026 World Cup has not gone off without a hitch. A 'captcha' test is typically designed to determine if an online user is really a human and not a bot ...

As I browse the web in 2025, I rarely encounter captchas anymore. There’s no slanted text to discern. No image grid of stoplights to identify. And on the rare occasion that I am asked to complete some ...

Are you human? A new game wants you to prove it. I’m Not a Robot is a fun spin on the popular CAPTCHA game synonymous with using the internet. Except it’s not just one game, but 48 increasingly absurd ...

Cybercriminals are abusing AI platforms to create and host fake CAPTCHA pages to enhance phishing campaigns, according to new Trend Micro research. Attackers are exploiting the ease of deployment, ...

Amid the launch of OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent, Redditors found something odd: that the AI will gladly click its way through a test meant to distinguish between humans and robots — by identifying ...

Bots have got a lot to answer for. They now make up over half of all internet traffic, and while some, such as Google’s web crawlers and fetchers, have legitimate purposes, nearly two-fifths are ...

ClickFix, a social engineering tactic that has been targeting both Windows and Mac users since early 2024, continues to evolve. Just last month, I reported on how attackers were using fake CAPTCHA ...

CAPTCHA—short for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"—is a form of verification online that helps distinguish human users from bots on login, account sign-up, ...

A new wave of browser-based phishing tricks unsuspecting users into copy-pasting malicious commands into their systems, all while believing they’re completing a legitimate CAPTCHA verification.

We warned you about fake CAPTCHAs last fall, and now the threat has evolved. What started as a clever Windows-targeted malware trap has turned into a full-blown, cross-platform scam operation that’s ...

When it comes to purchasing games on PC, Steam is one of the most popular platforms and has been around for over 20 years. However, that doesn't mean your experience will always be glitch-free. At ...

You’re likely well-acquainted with classic CAPTCHA tests on websites. You know, the thing where you have to click to confirm you aren’t a robot? Type in the strange-looking letters and numbers? Select ...