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The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

QR is just image to text, most QR reading apps I have used, show you the QR content before going to the website (or let you disable opening the link directly) so you should be able to check the URL or content and see if the link is legit or not.

But let's be honest most people don't know or don't even bother and that's the real problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But let’s be honest most people don’t know or don’t even bother and that’s the real problem.

100% they see the code and assume it can't be mean.