Facebook Is Still Teeming With Clickjackers: Report
Stoking our fears over digital maladies keeps online security companies in business, and that would explain why one vendor makes it sound like Facebook hasn't been reining in clickjacking and survey scams.
Stoking our fears over digital maladies keeps online security companies in business, which would explain why one vendor makes it sound like Facebook hasn’t been reining in clickjacking and survey scams.
While we’ve seen Facebook stopping these schemes before they spread as far as they used to, AVG has issued a report warning that users still need to watch out for clickjacking schemes.
These schemes appear in wall posts touting an application or a video about something timely or controversial.
Anyone who clicks on the links in these postings ends up distributing spam to all of their friends while getting lured to a malware-laden marketing survey that tries to capture the user’s personal information.
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