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I'm not from OSM but could you say more about malicious uses of captchas or how it's related to phishing?

It's really common now for phishing kits to use interstitial pages that require solving a captcha before the actual phishing content is shown

Victims just click through the captcha without thinking, but it makes automatic verdicting by security scanners a pain because they just see a captcha page: can't tell the brand being impersonated, or even if it's a phishing site

I wrote a post about a number of these which actually pretend to be Cloudflare! https://phish.report/blog/fake-cloudflare-interstitials

Interesting! What I was thinking of was use of legitimate captcha integrations (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha) in front of fake banking websites. Drives me crazy that there isn't an easy avenue to report those.

Oh some of them definitely use a real reCAPTCHA, hCAPTCHA, or Turnstile widget. It actually useful sometimes to track the same API key being used across multiple different domains

But yeah, I wouldn't even know where to report those API keys for abuse

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