An international research team has discovered clickjacking scripts on 613 popular websites that are used for ad fraud or to redirect users to malicious websites. The research revealed some websites collude with third-party scripts to hijack user clicks for monetization. In particular, their analysis demonstrated that more than 36% of the 3,251 unique click interception URLs were related to online advertising, which is the primary monetization approach on the Web. Further, they discovered that users can be exposed to malicious contents such as scamware through click interceptions.
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