Captcha scam?
In the link below there's a Captcha and it doesn't seem right to me. I've read about Captcha scams. Can someone from Bitdefender please investigate the one below and report back if it's a scam or not? Thank you!
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Yes, that definitely looks like a scam, especially what they want verified and how they want it verified, plus the image of who knows what in the background, let alone the link address.
@Flexx would you look into this one please, report it?
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@BlackHawk99, you have already shared this query on the Malwarebytes forum as well, where the Malwarebytes staff confirmed that the website in question is a scam. Below is the link to the post of your query on the Malwarebytes forum:
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/320719-captcha-scam/
Considering this, it would be wise to forward the website details to Bitdefender's malware researchers to have it reviewed and blocked appropriately.
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Thank you Flexx, good investigative work all the way around 😉☺️
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Hello.
URL has been reported by me:
[FN] [URL] Submission 1009811654
"The file has been automatically sent to our Malware Lab for specialized analysis. If the file is indeed a False Negative, a detection will be added within the next 72 hours and implemented in the product through a Signature Update. No further action is required from your end."
Cheers.
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Aren't verification codes usually random images? This is really rare...
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Yes, especially when they wanted keyboard input to possibly download the malware, or have it run in the browser memory, and go from there. There was also a pop up that came up in the background when the captcha was hit.
Probably a bit of a risk on my end it checking into it more, but on this PC, I didn't mind risking it. I had checked it with Virus Total first, as well as the link checker below before I proceeded. Virus Total had one flag, while Link Checker gave it a safe rating. Must be a very new phishing, scam site.
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As the OP I first want to thank ALL of you for the help and fast action! I greatly appreciate it! With that said…
I was not aware that "Posting malware samples and /or URLs were not allowed in the community." I then must ask… Where does one submit these possibly malicious links and files? Is there an email address for me to send these to?
Flexx… Please do not take this the wrong way…. Yes I did submit it to another forum. Is that an issue? I have multiple computers with different security setups. For example… One has MS Defender and Malwarebytes, one has Avast, and another has Bitdefender hence the reason I submitted it to more than one forum. Also I personally think it's a good idea to do submit to multiple forums for various reasons of which an explanation is too long to get into. Thanks again for the help!
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Hello again.
You can report file(s) and/or URL(s) as false negative or false positive to Bitdefender Labs here:
https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/29358/Regards.
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@BlackHawk99 no harm done, it's good to spread the word and thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. Also many thanks to everyone who contributed here! 🙏 This is a good example of people taking action and doing their part to raise awareness. We need more people like you.
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Just an update, got this from support for the link and wait we shall
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Flexx… Please do not take this the wrong way…. Yes I did submit it to another forum. Is that an issue?
Not at all. I was just checking on the web to see if there was any information available, and I came across the Malwarebytes forum link. I clicked on it and saw that you had also asked the same question on the Malwarebytes forum. Since the Malwarebytes staff had already checked the website and started detecting it as riskware, I stopped investigating and searching for information related to the same on the internet and suggested that you could simply report it to the Bitdefender malware researchers.
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