CAPTCHAs in reality: What might happen if they are easily broken?
Ananya Narayanaswamy · Journal of Student Research · 2022
This research paper explains the potential impact when CAPTCHAs become easy for attackers to solve. A literature review has been done on the different types of CAPTCHAs as well as the different methods present to break the CAPTCHAs. But data regarding the effect that CAPTCHAs have had when they have been attacked and broken is scarce. CAPTCHAs are deployed mainly to secure sites or apps but there are particular disadvantages which make them not only less beneficial to the owners of the sites or apps but also to the humans who need to solve them. These disadvantages are also in the form of vulnerabilities which prove beneficial to the attackers who can easily make use of the vulnerabilities to break the CAPTCHAs. It has been found that the impact of these attacks, in reality, has not been mentioned in previous studies. The impact prompts for advanced CAPTCHAs which solve the problems with the CAPTCHAs we have today.