Breaking reCAPTCHAv2

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Main Authors: Plesner, Andreas, Vontobel, Tobias, Wattenhofer, Roger
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Published: 2024
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author Plesner, Andreas
Vontobel, Tobias
Wattenhofer, Roger
author_facet Plesner, Andreas
Vontobel, Tobias
Wattenhofer, Roger
contents Our work examines the efficacy of employing advanced machine learning methods to solve captchas from Google's reCAPTCHAv2 system. We evaluate the effectiveness of automated systems in solving captchas by utilizing advanced YOLO models for image segmentation and classification. Our main result is that we can solve 100% of the captchas, while previous work only solved 68-71%. Furthermore, our findings suggest that there is no significant difference in the number of challenges humans and bots must solve to pass the captchas in reCAPTCHAv2. This implies that current AI technologies can exploit advanced image-based captchas. We also look under the hood of reCAPTCHAv2, and find evidence that reCAPTCHAv2 is heavily based on cookie and browser history data when evaluating whether a user is human or not. The code is provided alongside this paper.
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spellingShingle Breaking reCAPTCHAv2
Plesner, Andreas
Vontobel, Tobias
Wattenhofer, Roger
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Our work examines the efficacy of employing advanced machine learning methods to solve captchas from Google's reCAPTCHAv2 system. We evaluate the effectiveness of automated systems in solving captchas by utilizing advanced YOLO models for image segmentation and classification. Our main result is that we can solve 100% of the captchas, while previous work only solved 68-71%. Furthermore, our findings suggest that there is no significant difference in the number of challenges humans and bots must solve to pass the captchas in reCAPTCHAv2. This implies that current AI technologies can exploit advanced image-based captchas. We also look under the hood of reCAPTCHAv2, and find evidence that reCAPTCHAv2 is heavily based on cookie and browser history data when evaluating whether a user is human or not. The code is provided alongside this paper.
title Breaking reCAPTCHAv2
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08831