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This tactic is so old, but it weaponizes the annoying ubiquity of capchas. People just want to get to where they're going, so they click the squares and do the dance to get past the seemingly arbitrary barriers.
This technique shows up on !cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works every few weeks as the initial attack vector for some new RAT.