Shocking video of a girl attacked by a shark? OMG – it’s a colourful clickjack attack

Hot on the heels of other recent scams spreading virally across Facebook, we’re now seeing another – this time posing as a link to an alleged shocking video of a girl being attacked by a shark.

Thousands of messages have been posted by Facebook users reading:

OMG The Most Shocking Video Caught On Camera Girl Being Attacked By A Shark

If you click on the link you are taken to a Facebook page which fools you into believing you are about to watch a video. All you need to do (they say) is click on the red button and the…

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, on Mastodon at @[email protected], or drop him an email.