Facebook fans, now you must more careful to playing Facebook. This time, new malware spread in Facebook with name like World Cup 2010, “World Cup 2010 in HD” or “Justin Bieber’s phone number” that displayed on the your friends wall with “Liked” features.
By clicking the link then the user will be redirected to the Facebook site as well. Security experts claim that the scam will not have a risk of dangerous but can be used to send malware. This link usually will take users to a page that contains instructions, such as asking them to click a button to confirm you are over the age of 18 years.
However, every time you click on the links page, it will automatically add a link to a Facebook profile, which states that they ‘liked’ the site. Currently clickjacking goal is “trivial” and not active in the malware or phishing attacks, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
According to Cluley, a clickjacking attack can happen at any operating system. This attack uses iFrames, which actually can put a button is not visible on all web pages, so when the user clicks it, then they are also pressing the button, in this case is the ‘like’ is hidden on Facebook. A free plugin called NoScript in Firefox, also generate pop-up warning about the potential of these clickjacking.
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