What is Clickjacking? The Best Attack Prevention Methods | UpGuard

Clickjacking is an attack that overlays invisible malicious links or frames on legitimate webpages to trick users into unintended actions (such as financial transfers, enabling webcam/microphone, liking/sharing on social media, or triggering downloads). This article explains common clickjacking variants and provides mitigation guidance, emphasizing server-side protections (CSP frame-ancestors, X-Frame-Options) as the most effective defenses and describing client-side measures and their limitations.