Gmail's CAPTCHA solved by a worm

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 by Krish Tags: ,
Category: Computer, General, Security, Google

Bach Koa Internetwork Security (BKIS) reported a new worm "W32.Gaptcha.Worm." which have the ability to bypass the Gmail’s CAPTCHA.

Worm description:

Name: W32.Gaptcha.Worm

Size: 82 kb

Discovered date: April 22, 2009

Severity: Medium

This worm creates Gmail accounts from the infected machines and once Google blocks that computer from creating accounts it removes itself from the computer.

After it creates a Gmail account it will enable the pop3 service  and will set a forward to another email and will send the created account details to the hacker or spammer.

You can see the action steps here

if you are affected with this worm you can download and use free version of Bkav to remove this. Here is the download link

Via infoWorld




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