Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comLee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoIt’s also pretty easy to disguise the malicious part. For instance, hxxp://[email protected] (Hoping that didn’t get blocked as spam) On many apps, that would truncate somewhere around the .com
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoOr just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com
minus-squareAshley GraveslinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior
It’s also pretty easy to disguise the malicious part. For instance, hxxp://[email protected]
(Hoping that didn’t get blocked as spam)
On many apps, that would truncate somewhere around the .com
Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com
Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior