Anura PR Team
TL;DR
- Clickjacking tricks visitors into clicking hidden elements on a page.
- Prevention includes frame-busting scripts and CSP headers.
- It differs from phishing by targeting UI, not user trust.
- Also called UI redressing.
- Anura detects clickjacking traffic in real time to stop invalid traffic from wasting your ad spend and to your protect campaigns.
What is Clickjacking?
Clickjacking is a type of click fraud where fraudsters overlay transparent frames over legitimate content, tricking users into clicking on something different than what they believe they're clicking on.
This deceptive tactic is used to:
- Inflate ad impressions and clicks.
- Redirect visitors to malicious sites.
- Hijack social media actions (like fake “Likes” or shares).
For advertisers and publishers, clickjacking leads to wasted budgets, inaccurate analytics, and potential chargebacks.
What is Used to Prevent Clickjacking?
Developers often use technical measures to stop clickjacking:
- X-Frame-Options headers: Prevent unauthorized sites from embedding content in an iframe.
- Content Security Policy (CSP): Restricts which domains can frame your site.
- Frame-busting scripts: Detect and break out of malicious frames.
But these measures don’t protect advertisers from fraudulent traffic once it’s purchased. That’s where Anura comes in.
Anura’s Ad Tag Protect analyzes every impression in real time. It detects hidden iframes, overlays, and abnormal click behavior that suggest a clickjacking attack is underway. By eliminating this traffic before it enters your campaigns, Anura prevents fraudsters from draining your budget or corrupting analytics.
This proactive approach ensures your ads only reach real, verified visitors—not bots or manipulated clicks.
What is Clickjacking Also Known As?
Clickjacking is also called UI redressing because it tricks visitors by altering the user interface (UI).
What is the Difference Between Clickjacking and Phishing?
- Clickjacking manipulates the user interface so visitors unknowingly click something hidden.
- Phishing deceives visitors into willingly giving sensitive information, like passwords or credit card numbers.
Both attacks are dangerous but work in different ways.
What is an Example of a Clickjacking Attack?
Imagine a visitor browsing an online store. They attempt to click the “Add to Cart” button, but a hidden iframe placed by a fraudster overlays the button. Instead of adding the item, their click generates a fake ad impression or redirects them to a malicious site.
How Anura Stops Clickjacking
Clickjacking is invisible to most advertisers—but its impact is very real.
Anura’s ad fraud detection platform safeguards your campaigns by eliminating fraudulent traffic at the source. With nearly two decades of fraud intelligence, we help brands keep their ad spend safe, their analytics clean, and their revenue growing.
Start your free 15-day trial of Anura and stop paying for fraudulent traffic today.
