Think Before You Click: Facebook Clickjacking Scams

What is Clickjacking on Facebook? 

Clickjacking is a security danger like cross-site scripting. It happens when cyber criminals utilize a few straightforward layers to fool users into clicking a button or a link. Clickjacking may utilize various sorts of links, ranging from image links to message links.

The expression "clickjacking" was coined in light of the fact that the attack expects to "capture" the number of clicks implied for a specific page. It at that point courses to the clicks to another page. Cybercriminals shroud malicious substance under the cloak of legitimate pages and may utilize iframes and malicious JavaScript to load this substance from a third-party site.

Facebook, then again, has its own definition of clickjacking. On their website, they depict clickjacking as "certain malicious websites that contain code to make your browser make a move without your knowledge or assent". Using social engineering techniques, clickjacking brief users to click Facebook divider posts with links that lead them to survey scams. The spammed present spreads on their contacts' Facebook dividers.

How Do Users Experience this Danger? 

Users commonly experience this in social media sites. The danger may show up as an enticing Facebook divider post. These divider posts are created to seem enticing to users

You've likely recently been clickjacked.

Clickjacking scams have been around for a couple of years, and however it's not as prominent as before, it's in every case great to have an understanding of how it works, with the goal that you don't get bulldozed.

How It Works 

Clickjacking happens when the trickster puts an invisible button over an innocent-looking page displaying fluffy little cats or some news story. In any case, when you click on the page, you really click that straightforward element, which is linked to something else you didn't anticipate.

For instance, you may see a page with a film implanted on it. You need to watch the film, so you click on the play button. In any case, the con artist has superimposed an invisible page over the film with the goal that when you clicked on the play, you really clicked on a button granting access to your camera and microphone. You think you're watching the film, however, you're really permitting the trickster to access your camera and microphone on your PC.

You may find the page fooled you into changing privacy settings on your Facebook account, "liking" something you wouldn't typically "like," adding yourself as a Twitter follower for somebody you don't have the foggiest idea, or in any event, enabling something on your PC, for example, a microphone or camera.

You think you are clicking on something (a link to see an image of felines), yet the tricksters are using outlines and straightforward elements to load pages and buttons to something else.

How Could Users Avoid this Danger? 

There are numerous ways for users of this danger. Here are some straightforward advances that will work:

• Be careful about clicking links posted on your Facebook channels. 
• Limit your social media contacts to individuals you know personally. 
• Study the privacy settings of your social networking site of decision. Ensure that your association with these sites are secured (https://) as this may help in blocking malicious posts or sites. 
• On the off chance that conceivable, make your profile on Facebook private. Other than guarding your privacy, it likewise diminishes the odds of encountering malicious users online. 
• To know the most recent news and updates about world occasions, promotions, and so forth consider bookmarking sound news sites instead of exclusively relying on social media. 
• Proactively report or label suspicious posts seen on social networking sites.

Having an antivirus installed in your PC or other devices that are exposed to the internet is a big rescue.