Threat Database Rogue Websites Captchastate.link

Captchastate.link

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 7,635
Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 475
First Seen: August 11, 2022
Last Seen: September 23, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Users who encounter the Captchastate.link website are advised to use caution. First, the site's connection may not be secured. Second, Captchastate.link is likely to try to take advantage of them through various false and misleading messages. Indeed, the site has been confirmed to run a version of a popular browser-based tactic.

By pretending that users must pass a CAPTCHA check, the page may try to lure visitors into pressing the shown 'Allow' button and enabling its push notifications unknowingly. It is important to note that many hoax websites such as this one may vary their behavior based on the incoming IP addresses and users' geolocation. As such, the page could show a different false scenario or an entirely different tactic altogether. For example, sites propagating the same scheme also could claim that pressing 'Allow' will grant access to a video or a file that will supposedly become available for download.

In most cases, none of the claims made by the dubious site will be true. Instead, users who press the button will give important browser permissions to the page as part of the push notifications browser feature. As a result, Captchastate.link will become able to deliver various unwanted advertisements. It is highly unlikely for the generated advertisements to be promoting legitimate websites and products. Instead, users could see advertisements for similarly untrustworthy destinations, intrusive PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) equipped with adware, browser hijacker, and data-tracking capabilities or even malware threats.

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Captchastate.link may call the following URLs:

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