How Phishing Websites Use Captcha to Fool Browsers and People

Craig Hays
5 min readOct 30, 2020

Evading detection and building trust with Captcha challenges and Smishing attacks.

The latest SMS Phishing message I’ve received from not-my-real phone company

This week I received another SMS Phishing attack which was almost identical to the previous Smishing attack I covered. There were two things that struck me as particularly interesting this time:

  1. The attack used the s.id Indonesian link shortening…

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Craig Hays

FinTech startup to £105 million acquisition. Now I make stuff and help people with cyber security. https://craighays.com