Cybergangs Use Cheap Labor to Break Codes on Social Sites
It's become the new front in cybercrime: scams and identity-theft programs
that attack e-mail accounts and users of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. To carry out
many of these automated attacks, cybercriminals first must overcome "captchas," the distorted letters and
characters that users of an e-mail or social-networking account are required to type to complete certain online
forms. Now, security specialists say, a growing number of captcha-breaking groups are using real people to type
spread by e-mail and instant messages.
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