Forget banner hijacking, now we have "likejacking"

Forget banner hijacking, now we have "likejacking"

Gone are the days of banner hijacks and clipboard hijacks. Now we're ready for the Facebook "like" button hijack. Graham Cluley of Sophos describes the viral clickjacking worm that hits facebook users.

The trick, which uses a clickjacking exploit, means that visiting users are tricked into "liking" a page without necessarily realising they are recommending it to all of their Facebook friends.
Unfortunately, as we're all too aware, messages such as "LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE.", "This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!", "The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School." and "This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana, Check It Out!" are exactly the kind of content that people will click on on Facebook.
Sophos detects the offending webpages as being infected by Troj/Iframe-ET.

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