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Nowadays, CAPTCHAs are computer generated tests that human can pass but current computer systems can not. They have common usage in various web services in order to be able to detect a human from computer programs autonomously. In this way,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Ahmet Faruk Cakmak , Muhammet Balcilar

The rapid evolution of GUI-enabled agents has rendered traditional CAPTCHAs obsolete. While previous benchmarks like OpenCaptchaWorld established a baseline for evaluating multimodal agents, recent advancements in reasoning-heavy models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Liu , Yaxin Luo , Jiacheng Cui , Xinyi Shang , Xiaohan Zhao , Zhiqiang Shen

Captcha are widely used to secure systems from automatic responses by distinguishing computer responses from human responses. Text, audio, video, picture picture-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) are used for creating captcha.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Vaibhav Khatavkar , Makarand Velankar , Sneha Petkar

We demonstrate that state-of-the-art optical character recognition (OCR) based on deep learning is vulnerable to adversarial images. Minor modifications to images of printed text, which do not change the meaning of the text to a human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Congzheng Song , Vitaly Shmatikov

The advancements in generative AI have enabled the improvement of audio synthesis models, including text-to-speech and voice conversion. This raises concerns about its potential misuse in social manipulation and political interference, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Dinh-Thuc Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

We introduce Reverse CAPTCHA, an evaluation framework that tests whether large language models follow invisible Unicode-encoded instructions embedded in otherwise normal-looking text. Unlike traditional CAPTCHAs that distinguish humans from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Marcus Graves

Nowadays, people generate and share massive content on online platforms (e.g., social networks, blogs). In 2021, the 1.9 billion daily active Facebook users posted around 150 thousand photos every minute. Content moderators constantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mauro Conti , Luca Pajola , Pier Paolo Tricomi

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a widely used tool to extract text from scanned documents. Today, the state-of-the-art is achieved by exploiting deep neural networks. However, the cost of this performance is paid at the price of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Mauro Conti , Nicola Farronato , Stefanos Koffas , Luca Pajola , Stjepan Picek

As automation bot technology and Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly, conventional human verification techniques like voice CAPTCHAs and knowledge-based authentication are becoming less effective. Bots and scrapers with Artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Aditya Mitra , Sibi Chakkaravarthy Sethuraman , Devi Priya V S

With the growth of connectivity to smart grids, new applications, and the changing interaction between customer and energy clouds, clouds are more vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. Efficient detection methods are required to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Monther Aldwairi , Suaad Mohammed , Megana Lakshmi Padmanabhan

The world has seen the emergence of machines based on pretrained models, transformers, also known as generative artificial intelligences for their ability to produce various types of content, including text, images, audio, and synthetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Bernardo Gonçalves

Text-based machine learning models are vulnerable to an emerging class of Unicode-based adversarial examples capable of tricking a model into misreading text with potentially disastrous effects. The primary existing defense against these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nicholas Boucher , Jenny Blessing , Ilia Shumailov , Ross Anderson , Nicolas Papernot

In the not so unlikely scenario of total compromise of computers accessible to a group of users, they might be tempted to resort to human-computable paper-and-pencil cryptographic methods aided by a classic Tabula Recta, which helps to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Francisco Ruiz

We propose a new scheme of attack on the Microsoft's ASIRRA CAPTCHA which represents a significant shortcut to the intended attacking path, as it is not based in any advance in the state of the art on the field of image recognition. After…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-11 Carlos Javier Hernandez-Castro , Arturo Ribagorda , Yago Saez

Following the principle of to set one's own spear against one's own shield, we study how to design adversarial CAPTCHAs in this paper. We first identify the similarity and difference between adversarial CAPTCHA generation and existing hot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Chenghui Shi , Xiaogang Xu , Shouling Ji , Kai Bu , Jianhai Chen , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang

The Turing Test (TT) checks for human intelligence, rather than any putative general intelligence. It involves repeated interaction requiring learning in the form of adaption to the human conversation partner. It is a macro-level post-hoc…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Bruce Edmonds , Carlos Gershenson

Previous work showed that reCAPTCHA v2's image challenges could be solved by automated programs armed with Deep Neural Network (DNN) image classifiers and vision APIs provided by off-the-shelf image recognition services. In response to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Md Imran Hossen , Yazhou Tu , Md Fazle Rabby , Md Nazmul Islam , Hui Cao , Xiali Hei

As a widely deployed security scheme, text-based CAPTCHAs have become more and more difficult to resist machine learning-based attacks. So far, many researchers have conducted attacking research on text-based CAPTCHAs deployed by different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Chunhui Li , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Yu Zhang , Peiming Wang

Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs) are automatic reverse Turing tests designed to distinguish between various groups of users. Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a HIP system that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Sushma Yalamanchili , M. Kameswara Rao

CAPTCHAs have become a ubiquitous tool in safeguarding applications from automated bots. Over time, the arms race between CAPTCHA development and evasion techniques has led to increasingly sophisticated and diverse designs. The latest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Gelei Deng , Haoran Ou , Yi Liu , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Yang Liu