Revenge on an ex-girlfriend or a Facebook clickjacking attack?

Another status update was spreading virally earlier today, exploiting a clickjacking attack that we have seen Facebook scammers use in the past.

Messages were appearing on users’ Facebook accounts saying:

OMG This GUY Went a Little To Far WITH His Revenge On His EX Girlfriend

Clicking on the link would take your web browser to a page which asked you to click on a red and then a blue box to “confirm” that you are human.

We’ve seen this trick a number of times before, of course.

It’s what I call a colourful clickjacking attack. You think you’re just clicking with your mouse on a red and blue box, but in fact you’re unknowingly liking and sharing the link with all of your Facebook friends.

If thousands of Facebook users like a page, as they did in this incident, then there’s the potential for cybercriminals to send spam to…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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