Cyberattackers are using Google’s reCAPTCHA function, also know as the “I am not a robot” function and other CAPTCHA-like services to make their phishing schemes appear more legitimate.

CAPTCHAs are familiar to the general public but what you don’t know is that they prevent security crawlers from detecting malicious content and adds a legitimate look to phishing login pages.

Over the past month the security team at Palo Alto Networks detected over 500 new CAPTCHA protected phishing websites per day. This scam is on the rise and you’re likely to see one in your inbox soon. What can you do?

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