Indian organisations on edge as sites fail to Captcha AI intruders
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- ✓Major US banks reported that AI agents like Muse accessed customer accounts last month, sparking worry across India.
- ✓Traditional CAPTCHA tools now fail to stop these bots from entering websites.
- ✓Indian firms are on edge as they struggle to tell if their online traffic comes from a human or AI.
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- Indian Markets
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- Economic Times
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- India Economy
Personal AI agents such as Instinct, Muse, Grokbot and OpenClaw have taken over the consumer internet in the US. But last month, major US banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley, reportedly flagged AI agents such as Meta's Muse accessing customer accounts using login credentials voluntarily shared by users laying bare the risks of handing AI agents the keys to consumers' digital lives.
Traditional CAPTCHA techniques are failing to identify bot traffic and the internet's oldest security question: 'Are you a human?' no longer has a reliable answer. The recent incident of US banks reporting unauthorised transactions by personal AI agents has sparked paranoia among India's financial and e-commerce sector.Organisations are struggling to identify if the traffic to their websites is coming from a human, an AI bot, a legitimate bot
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