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Have Spammers Overcome the CAPTCHA?

Posted by kdawson on from the turing-in-his-grave dept.

thefickler writes "It appears that spammers have found a way to automatically create Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts. They have already generated more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender. The company says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems."

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  1. Outsourcing by mhannibal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who needs CAPTCHA breaking software - they can just outsource creating the accounts to China, India or some other country.

    I wouldn't imagine creating 15.000 accounts would be very expensive.

  2. Re:Quick! by house21 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    BitDefender employs Romanians, they should come up with something lol