Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 6 months agoThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comLee Duna to [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•6 months 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-squareAshley GraveslinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months 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