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Windows Calculator at Risk: After Berlin Cyberattack: Be Watchful at Captchas

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Checkboxes click to prove that you are a human being and not a bot, everyone knows. That's why so-called captchas have a certain confidence. That's what attackers use - as probably recently in Berlin.

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Checkboxes click to prove that you are a human being and not a bot, everyone knows. That's why so-called captchas have a certain confidence. That's what attackers use - as probably recently in Berlin.

A perfidious method seems to have played a role in the severe cyber attack on the Berlin administration: a fake captcha is said to have opened the way for attackers into the network. The BSI warns against the mesh – Windows users can see it by a crucial detail.

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saarbruecker-zeitung.de broke the news on Monday, September 7, 2026.
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