Adult sites trick users into Liking Facebook posts using a clickjack Trojan | Malwarebytes

As the use of age verification to access adult websites increases in various countries around the world, shady websites with adult content have started a timely malware-fueled campaign to promote links to their own websites. During our daily rounds on Facebook, looking for the latest scams, we noticed something odd about some posts pointing to adult websites. We found that several of the sites promoted in this way were hosted on blogspot[.]com, and that these sites linked to other similar sites. Here’s one example: Most of these sites promise the visitor explicit pictures of celebrities, most of which will undoubtedly turn out to be generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This in itself is not uncommon. However, what did stand out was that a few of the Facebook posts had a lot of Likes. Most people don’t like that type of content on Facebook since everyone can see who the Likes are from. A high number of Likes for a post is great for the accounts posting these links, because when a Facebook profile or post gets more Likes it is more likely to show up in people’s feeds, which is basically more advertising for the same money. So, how do
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