14 DAY TRIAL // Likejacking, the malicious technique used by cybercriminals to make users unknowingly Like their Facebook pages and scams, is not uncommon, but now it has evolved. ZScaler researchers came across a website on which anywhere you click, you unknowingly hit a Like button.
The crooks managed to pull this off by designing a webpage and placing a DIV element in it. The DIV layer contains a Like button and its opacity parameter is set to 0.0.1 to make it invisible to the naked eye.
By setting the DIV element’s position to absolute, it can be programmed to follow the mouse around on a page, so everywhere you click, you’re actually clicking on the invisible Facebook Like button.
These clever techniques could gain a scam more popularity and as we all know, Facebook popularity earns hackers a lot of affiliate cash, at least.