Fake reCAPTCHA Lure Tied to Dedicated Host via Certificate Match
A phishing domain mimicking Google's reCAPTCHA challenge, verifyrecapcha.info, is flagged by 19 of 91 security engines and routes through a scripted PHP backend rather than any real verification flow. An exact TLS certificate-serial match links it directly to a single dedicated IP in Germany, exposing the infrastructure behind Cloudflare's cosmetic fronting.
A domain calling itself verifyrecapcha.info is not, in fact, a CAPTCHA. It is a phishing front end that mimics the verification interstitial Google uses to separate humans from bots, and it has been flagged by 19 of 91 security engines — a detection band that puts it firmly in known-bad territory even before the infrastructure underneath it is examined.
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