A Brief Survey of Detection and Mitigation Techniques for Clickjacking and Drive-by Download Attacks

the advent of the World Wide Web the whole world became closure to each other. Further it has provided a medium to socialise over long distances. This has further abated the growth of many social media platforms. The social media platforms have brought many, even the non tech-savvy user on the internet. So, social media platform users have become an easy targets of the attackers and hackers who exploit the vulnerabilities of users, including the web browsers. Clickjacking and drive-by downloads have become a popular tools through which the attackers try to exploit the users. This paper takes a look at the different systems that have been proposed to detect, mitigate and prevent clickjacking and drive-by download attacks.