Worm perforated Gmail CAPTCHA, Making False Accounts

A security company in Vietnam has detected a new worm that threatens the security protections Google in order to register dummy Gmail account with the goal to send the spam. Bach Koa Internetwork Security (BKIS), the company etrsebut new worm has been found in early this week with the honeypot, a term to capture a sample software 'evil'. BKIS worm named with the name of the new malware W32.Gaptcha.Worm



Once a computer infected with Gaptcha, worms are akan me-launching the Internet Explorer browser, and then go to the registration page a new account in Gmail. Steps starting from the spread of worms, memdorong user to perform charging false name at random. When must pass a CAPTCHA, worm will send the CAPTCHA image to a remote server for processing. It is delivered by senior malware researcher, I Mạnh Dung, as quoted from the blog BKIS.

A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a text that can keep changing, where the user must enter it into a box before the new account is created. CAPTCHA model is made difficult for ditranslasikan by computer, but the improvised technology OCR (OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is able to overcome these weaknesses.

Once filled with full registration, account details will be email to spammers-kan. After a lot of accounts that have diregistrasi, then Google will block computers that are a source of much account, and the worm will remove itself automatically. Meanwhile, according to the Google party in London, does not comment on this new worm, but Google and other companies that also provide free email accounts have been experiencing the same thing with this technique the spammers for making false email account. (H_n)