How the CAPTCHA Recognition Industry Works
Not a single CAPTCHA will stand in the confrontation with an army of low-paid users who are willing to recognize Google’s “captcha” and Myspace for days for a modest $ 2 reward per 1000 images. In India, a whole data processing industry has emerged that specializes in this, with thousands and thousands of Indians working there.
These people sit behind the displays and solve the "captcha" in real time. Their working interface looks something like this.
Details about the intricacies of the business of such companies published Dancho Danchev in the blog ZDNet Zero Day. Their business is booming. Moreover, there have been recent signs of consolidation of the largest players in this market. They begin to jointly develop new work tools, take steps to reduce wages, and even begin to provide franchise business to foreign partners.
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They already have a standard web toolkit, they started publishing APIs and launched thousands of proxy servers in order to bring their business to a real industrial scale.
For example, several franchises in Bangladesh have a total staff of 1000 employees (these “lemmings” are searched for via the Internet, including in the CIS countries ) and guarantee breaking of 250,000 “captcha” per day at a price of $ 2 per thousand. Some companies guarantee customers recognition accuracy of 90% and a maximum speed of 10 seconds per image.
Below we publish several screenshots of various web interfaces with which CAPTCHA hackers work.
More screenshots in better resolution can be found here .
These people sit behind the displays and solve the "captcha" in real time. Their working interface looks something like this.
Details about the intricacies of the business of such companies published Dancho Danchev in the blog ZDNet Zero Day. Their business is booming. Moreover, there have been recent signs of consolidation of the largest players in this market. They begin to jointly develop new work tools, take steps to reduce wages, and even begin to provide franchise business to foreign partners.
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They already have a standard web toolkit, they started publishing APIs and launched thousands of proxy servers in order to bring their business to a real industrial scale.
For example, several franchises in Bangladesh have a total staff of 1000 employees (these “lemmings” are searched for via the Internet, including in the CIS countries ) and guarantee breaking of 250,000 “captcha” per day at a price of $ 2 per thousand. Some companies guarantee customers recognition accuracy of 90% and a maximum speed of 10 seconds per image.
Below we publish several screenshots of various web interfaces with which CAPTCHA hackers work.
More screenshots in better resolution can be found here .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/38589/
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