CLICKJACKING EXPLAINED
clickjacking is a technique used by malicious websites to steal clicks click jacking is a method of tricking website users into clicking on a harmful link by disguising the link as something else imagine you're the owner of the leading kitten video site on the internet and you find yourself hosting the most clickable kitten video the world has ever seen this makes you a pretty good target for hackers wanting to steal clicks suppose your site lives at WWE it is calm unless you've implemented protective measures a hacker could build their own site with a very similar URL and include your site in an iframe next the attacker adds a transparent div on top of the iframe with a higher Z index and wraps that div in a link tag now a user who wants to view your video can be tricked into performing any action the attacker intends even potentially harmful ones like downloading malware or being taken to online scams as far as the browser knows the user has legitimately chosen to click on the hackers link as a result the browser will go ahead and perform whatever action is sitting behind that link let's click on the cat video to see what happens Oh [Music]
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