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 ...

Russian state-backed hackers have stepped up their game with new malware families that hide behind fake CAPTCHA tests. The group, known as Star Blizzard or ColdRiver, now uses ClickFix attacks to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The website of iClicker, a popular student engagement platform, was compromised in a ClickFix attack that used a fake CAPTCHA prompt to trick students and instructors into installing malware on their ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: A new cyber threat tactic has emerged, leveraging social engineering to trick users into infecting their own systems with malware. Recently highlighted by Malwarebytes, this method ...

Here’s a hot computer tip coming to you straight from 1995: don’t enter random stuff in the Windows Run command bar. This might seem obvious to anyone who knows what “run” means in a PC context, but ...