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Microsoft’s Cybercrime Crackdown: Busting Bots, Seizing Storm-1152, and Reinventing CAPTCHA
Microsoft serves a reality check to cyber rogues, waging war against bot fraud. The tech titan seizes Storm-1152’s websites, a group infamous for tricking CAPTCHA and creating 750 million sham accounts. Now, with Arkose Labs, Microsoft brings next-gen CAPTCHA defense. Storm-1152, it’s game over.
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Beware, cybercrime enthusiasts! Microsoft is on a crusade against your devious antics. They've played detective and now they've got the law on their side to crack down on the mischief makers, Storm-1152. Turns out, this group has been tricking CAPTCHA (those annoying jigsaw puzzles we fail at more often than we'd like to admit) to create a whopping 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts. So, if you've been thinking CAPTCHA is your only obstacle in pulling off a digital heist, think again. Big M is watching, and they mean business.Already a member? Log in here