An anti-captcha Trojan Yahoo

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An anti-captcha Trojan Yahoo

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A Trojan manages to break Yahoo's Captcha security Un Trojan anti captcha Yahoo External content (video or audio) hidden: it sets its own cookies. Cridex's webmail component starts by filling in the registration form using fake data then sends snapshots of the Captcha appearing on the Yahoo page to a remote server tasked with decoding the text. If the Captcha returned by the server isn't validated, the malware engine asks the remote server to repeat its attempts until it gets the right answer. In Websense's test, the software engine got the right answer after five failed attempts, a remarkable success rate considering the large number of infected machines. In fact, the success is twofold. On one hand, Cridex seems to integrate an engine capable of quickly cracking the Captcha securing the webmail. Websense estimates that the six attempts in its demonstration likely reflect the average number. Then, Websense doesn't specify this, but the remote server hijacks an optical character and image recognition system (OCR), otherwise used for entirely legitimate purposes.

Another important advantage is that despite the cumbersome procedure (the cybercriminals have to send the screenshots back and forth to the remote server), the Captcha crack itself is carried out from the victim's computer, therefore a machine identified with a domain name that doesn't arouse suspicion. This allows the criminals to avoid going through an illegal server that could be quickly spotted and blocked. Once the fake Yahoo account is set up, the time during which it will be able to send spam before being detected is probably very short. So much so that the malicious software has to generate new accounts as quickly as possible.

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