Detection · Remote-control sessions
Detect remote-control sessions in remote interviews.
AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Chrome Remote Desktop — tools that let someone else view or drive the candidate's machine, feeding answers or taking over the hard parts. Capifiq surfaces an active remote-control session on the interview timeline and seals it as evidence, even when the software is renamed or brand new.
The threat
Someone else, driving the interview.
A remote-control session lets a second person see the candidate's screen and, often, control it directly. During an interview that means an expert can read the questions, type the answers, or quietly take over whenever the candidate gets stuck — while the person on camera simply narrates.
It is one of the oldest forms of interview fraud, and modern remote-desktop tools make it effortless and, to a casual observer, invisible.
Tools in this category
- AnyDesk — fast, quiet remote desktop
- TeamViewer — widely used remote access
- Chrome Remote Desktop — browser-based control
- RustDesk and other open-source clients
- Remote-desktop protocols generally
- …and the next client shipped tomorrow
The blind spot
Why the interviewer can't tell.
Remote control is built to be seamless, and remote-desktop software is everywhere and legitimate.
Invisible on camera
The helper is on another machine entirely. The webcam shows a calm, capable candidate answering smoothly.
Looks like normal software
Remote-desktop tools are legitimate and common, so their mere presence can't tell interview abuse from routine IT support.
Renamed or brand new
A signature scanner only knows catalogued clients. A renamed build or a new tool simply isn't on the list yet.
What Capifiq surfaces
- An active remote-access session during the interview
- The connection state and session timing
- Coverage that isn't limited to named clients
- Cryptographically hashed, sealed evidence for review
The coverage
Caught by the session, not the brand.
Capifiq surfaces that a remote-control session is active during the interview, regardless of which client is used or what it is called.
The finding lands on the timeline in real time and is sealed as deterministic evidence for the interviewer to weigh — not a probability score.
The full picture
On-device is only half of it.
Capifiq detects any unauthorized assistance running on the candidate's device — this is one of the common vectors, not a fixed list. And for help that never touches the device, interviewing methodology deters what no software can see.
Hidden AI assistants
Desktop and web tools that feed answers on a hidden overlay.
Virtual machines
A second environment concealing unauthorized tools.
Virtual cameras & deepfakes
A substituted or manipulated webcam feed.
Browser-based assistants
Extensions and web apps that generate answers.
Display tampering
Overlays and extra displays hiding content.
Off-device cheating
Deterred with interviewing methodology — the second pillar.
Questions
Common questions.
Does Capifiq detect AnyDesk or TeamViewer?
What if the outside person only watches, and doesn't type?
Isn't remote-desktop software legitimate?
What about a brand-new remote tool?
Get started
Catch the hand you can't see on the keyboard.
Run Capifiq alongside the Zoom, Teams, or Meet calls you already do, and see what it surfaces.