At its annual Amplify Conference, HP Inc. issued its latest Threat Insights Report, highlighting the rising usage of fake CAPTCHA verification tests, which allows threat actors to trick users into infecting themselves. The campaigns show attackers are capitalizing on growing ‘click tolerance’, whereby users are now accustomed to jumping through hoops to authenticate themselves online.
Dr. Ian Pratt, Global Head of Security for Personal Systems at HP Inc., explained: “Multi-step authentication is now the norm, which is increasing our click tolerance. The research shows users will take multiple steps along an infection chain, really underscoring the shortcomings of cyber awareness training. Organizations are in an arms race with attackers — one that AI will only accelerate. To combat increasingly unpredictable threats, organizations should focus on shrinking their attack surface by isolating risky actions – such as clicking on things that could harm them. That way, they don’t need to predict the next attack; they’re already protected.”
Based on data from millions of endpoints running HP Wolf Security, the report details how cybercriminals continue to diversify attack methods to bypass security tools.
